mackerel

Holy mackerel!

Inf. Wow! Holy mackerel! What a beautiful day! Holy mackerel! What's this? A new car?

holy cow

1. what a surprise a€?I was paying 23 percent interest on that credit card.a€? a€?Holy cow!a€?

2. how wonderful "A friend of mine is in Hollywood filming a movie this month." "Holy cow, that must be so cool."

holy cow

Also, holy mackerel or Moses or moly or smoke . An exclamation of surprise, astonishment, delight, or dismay, as in Holy cow, I forgot the wine, or Holy mackerel, you won! or Holy Moses, here comes the teacher! or Holy smoke, I didn't know you were here too. The oldest of these slangy expletives uses mackerel, dating from about 1800; the one with Moses dates from about 1850 and cow from about 1920. None has any literal significance, and moly is a neologism devised to rhyme with "holy" and possibly a euphemism for "Moses."

Holy mackerel!

(ˈholi ˈmækrəl)

exclam. Wow! Holy mackerel! What a day!

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Krimhilde	krim-HIL-də	German
Prokopy	prah-KO-pee	Russian
Iob	-	Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek
Rena	['rinə]
Eyal	-	Hebrew
Evelina	[evi'lainə]