lions and tigers and bears, oh my
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz.
Noun[edit]
lions and tigers and bears, oh my (uncountable)
- (colloquial) More things of the same kind; et cetera.
- 2011, Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Amy Newmark, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Tales of Golf and Sport:
- It's [playing sports] about divots, brush-burns, rally caps, the Miracle On Ice, and Lions, and Tigers and Bears (Oh my!).
- 2021, Mandy Hale, Don't Believe the Swipe: Finding Love without Losing Yourself:
- We've talked about ghosters and exters and love bombers and kittenfishers and lions and tigers and bears ... oh my!
- 2012, Shelly Crane, Devour, page 266:
- Although things weren't solved and we were far from done with this whole Horde thing, and lions and tigers and bears, oh my; I felt good. I knew things would be hard and dangerous in the days to come and I had no idea what to expect, […]