bejesus
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bejesus
- Expressing surprise, annoyance, dismay, or anger.
- 1949, James T. Farrell, The Road Between, Vanguard Press, page 25:
- The young stinker and smeller dug in his pocket, pulled something out, and, bejesus, the young stinker and smeller was giving him something.
Noun[edit]
bejesus (uncountable)
- (euphemistic) Used for emphasis, similar to crap, shit or wits.
- The bear scared the bejesus out of us.
- He said you confused the bejesus out of him
- This old lady just completely slapped the bejesus out of him.
- That screaming, flaming skull in the closet totally scared the bejesus out of me!
- 1949, Richard Harrity, Hope is the Thing with Feathers, Dramatists Play Service, page 18:
- But they give me clothes for my body, and food for my belly, and tonight, I'm so happy, I could beat the living bejesus outa this goddam drum.
- 1972, Henry Kissinger, Conversation Between President Nixon and the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs (Kissinger), Office of the Historian:
- Nixon: You see what I mean? We can’t take it.
- Kissinger: I agree. That’s why we’ve got to blast—
- Nixon: That’s right.
- Kissinger: —the living bejeezus out of North Vietnam. We will gain nothing for restraint—.
- Nixon: That’s right—
- 1995, Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age, Bantam Books:
- Martial arts mean beating the bejesus out of people.
- 2018, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “Jason Statham fighting a giant shark should be a lot more fun than The Meg”, in The A.V. Club:
- The dorsal fin is one of the animal kingdom’s masterstrokes of branding; it looks like a tooth, and we don’t need to see the rest of the shark to have the bejesus scared out of us.