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The expression is often abbreviated to simply oy, or elongated to oy vey iz mir ("Oh, woe is me"). [7] The fuller lament is sometimes found as the more Germanic oy vey ist mir . [ 8 ] [ 9 ] The main purpose or effect of elongating it is often dramatic, something like a "cosmic ouch".
"Please" is a shortening of the phrase, if you please, an intransitive, ergative form taken from if it please you, which is in turn a calque of the French s'il vous plaît, which replaced pray. The exact time frame of the shortening is unknown, though it has been noted that this form appears not to have been known to William Shakespeare , for ...
Oh My God, O My God, Oh My God! or Ohmigod may refer to: . the first words of the Act of Contrition, a Christian prayer; a common phrase frequently abbreviated as "OMG", often used in SMS messages and Internet communication, and sometimes euphemised as "Oh my Goodness" or "Oh my Gosh".
“Oh please, get a job,” Behar, an 81-year-old actress and comedian interjected on the daytime talk show. "There’s a million job openings in this country." "There’s a million job openings ...
Ah, oh Please, please, please (Ah, ah, ah) [Outro] If you wanna go and be stupid Don't do it in front of me If you don't wanna cry to my music Don't make me hate you prolifically
I just love that saying, ‘Oh my god Becky, look at that butt.’” The song in reference is the 1992 hit “Baby Got Back” by the American rapper Sir Mix-a-Lot — whose legal name is Anthony ...
("Oh, the times! Oh, the morals!"). A modern example is "Young man!" from the song YMCA by the Village People. Edgar Allan Poe used ecphonesis in “The Tell-Tale Heart:” "Almighty God!--no, no! They heard!--they suspected!--they knew!--they were making a mockery of my horror!--this I thought, and this I think. But anything was better than ...
Oh no may refer to: An exclamation used to indicate shock or dismay, primarily used in the English language; Music. Oh No (musician) (born 1979), American rapper;