holy mackerel
exclamation
mainlyUSinformaluk/ˌhəʊ.li ˈmæk.rəl/us/ˌhoʊ.li ˈmæk.rəl/used to show that youthinksomething issurprising,shocking, orimpressive:
（表示惊叹、困惑等）天哪，哎呀Holymackerel, that's a lot!哎呀，那可太多了！
- I said "Holymackerel! What am I doing here?"
- Holymackerel, that's theweirdestdogIeversaw.
- Holymackerel! How did you do that?
Linguistics: interjections
- aiyo
- alack
- alas and alackphrase
- attaboy
- attagirl
- auf Wiedersehen
- aw shucks
- figure
- goodo
- more
- more power toyourelbow!idiom
- need
- need I say more?idiom
- neener, neener
- no siridiom
- period
- small wonderidiom
- sweet
- the rest is historyidiom
- you seeidiom