jumping cats! excl.
(US/Aus.) a mild excl.
![]() | Bucky O’Connor (1910) 105: By the jumping California frog, I’ve got it! | |
![]() | Quinton’s Rouseabout and other Stories 151: ‘A cricketer yer call yerself! [...] By the jumpin’ wallaby, I’ll bowl you out!’ Whizz! ‘I’ll make a cricketer of yer!’. | |
![]() | Roads of Destiny 202: How the jumping rattlesnakes did that get there? | |
![]() | Boy’s Own Paper XL:1 20: Jumping snakes! but for two pins I’d eat you! | |
![]() | Mother of the Hoboes 59: Jumping Cats! Quick, Silas, run and see if this advertisement concerns that funny-mugged dog critter. | |
![]() | House of Cain 264: ‘Jumping nannygoats!’ he exclaimed. | |
![]() | Buckaroo’s Code (1948) 104: Holy, jumping bullfrogs, Mitch, she was telling the truth. [Ibid.] 117: ‘Holy, jumping caterpillars!’ Santiam groaned. | |
![]() | Oh Boy! No. 17 5: Jumping catfish they’ve gone!! |