ye gods (and little fishes)! excl.
a mild oath.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | in Pills to Purge Melancholy III 189: Ye Gods, she said, how oft he swore. | |
![[Ind]](/static/img/flags/ind.png "India") | Hicky’s Bengal Gaz. 18-25 Aug. n.p.: Ye Gods! it is enough to make old Saturn smile. | |
| Fudge Family in Paris Letter IX 92: While to his case a tear a I dropt, / And saunter’d home, thought I — ye Gods! | |
| Dict. of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, etc. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Owl (NY) 11 Sept. n.p.: O ye gods and little fishes. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Bell’s Life in Sydney 26 Jan. 2/6: [He] raised his hempy-waxy hand and struck her — oh, ye gods and llttle fishes. | |
![[NZ]](/static/img/flags/nz.png "New Zealand") | N.Z. Observer (Auckland) 29 Jan. 193/2: Oh, ye Gods and little fishes, how many more classes of society are we going to have in Onehunga? | |
| Bulletin (Sydney) 6 June 10/3: Ye gods! We have been Christians for 1800 years, and yet we are only anxious to soothe the dying moments of ‘highly respectable’ strangers. | |
| Sporting Times 8 Mar. 1/1: Ye gods, he cashed it! When the note was presented at the bank there was a great scene, which nearly culminated in a revolution in the Principality. | |
| Truth (Sydney) 7 Jan. 3/4: The ‘Australian Star’ made a vicious attack ion Governor Duff [...] because he didn’t turn up at the Caledonian Sports. Ye gods! | |
| Bulletin (Sydney) 13 Jan. 11/1: Ye gods! Lovely woman would pluck a diamond bracelet even from the cannon’s mouth. | |
| Bulletin (Sydney) 1 Dec. 15/2: White Australia! Ye gods! We’ve got to make it white somehow – and it’s going to be cheaper to starve them out than chase them with a gun. | |
| Us Boys 26 Sept. [synd. cartoon strip] Oh ye gods and little fishes / Willie hasta wipe the dishes. | |
| West Broadway 107: But ye gobs [sic] and little fishes! We was to learn the real truth about why a car is called a boat! | |
| Tell England (1965) 143: Ye Gods! Had he ever heard of Honion? | |
| Redheap (1965) 125: ‘Lips, rosy, ambrosial, and a leg - ye gods!’ . | |
| Gentlemen of the Broad Arrows 178: ‘Ye gods!’ ejaculated my comrade. | |
| Whizzbang Comics 6: ‘Ye gods and little fishes,’ he breathed excitedly. | |
| Diaries 29 Dec. 37: This boy is the personification of indecision, just doesn’t know what to do with himself. Ye Gods! | |
| Murder Is Announced (1958) 66: ‘Ye Gods and Little Fishes,’ said Sir Henry ‘can it be?’. |