blimey
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈblaɪmi/
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand) Expressing anger, surprise, excitement, etc. [From 1889.]
- Blimey! I didn't see that!
- 1945, Kenneth Lewis Roberts, British Mysteries, in The Kenneth Roberts Reader, 2002, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=ZgE1ubax3_QC&pg=PA191&dq=%22blimey%22+-intitle:%22blimey%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=-N_yTtGlN5HsmAWvy-y8Ag&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22blimey%22%20-intitle%3A%22blimey%22&f=false page 191],
- “Blimey!” he says in his rough, shepherd's voice, “blimey, but it′s cruel ′ard to be chucked out of one′s digs wivout a blarsted word! […] ”
- ‘Blimey,’ said Jack. ‘Blimey blimey blimey.’
- 2011, Duncan Campbell, If It Bleeds, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=YzGF8Xpoq6IC&pg=PT159&dq=%22blimey%22+-intitle:%22blimey%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=D93yTsH0JfHomAWi_cmLAg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22blimey%22%20-intitle%3A%22blimey%22&f=false unnumbered page],
- ‘Blimey,’ said Laurie. ‘But how would he know that the Old Bill are going to swallow that? It′s a bit bloody obvious that someone must have planted it on Petrov, isn′t it?’
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- French: mince, bon sang, diantre, fichtre, mazette
- German: na sowas
- Italian: cribbio, perbacco, dannazione, ostia, miseriaccia, foccalabindella, urca
- Portuguese: caraças
- Spanish: caramba
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