jumping Jehoshaphat

English

Interjection

jumping Jehoshaphat

1. (US, dated) Used to express astonishment
   • 1866, Thomas Mayne Reid, The Headless Horseman: A Strange Tale of Texas‎^[1] (Western), London: Richard Bentley, →ISBN, page 100:

     By the jumpin' Geehosofat, what a gurl she air sure enuf!

Synonyms

• (expression of astonishment): great Scott, jumping Jesus