Idioms

holy smoke(s)

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holy smoke(s)

An exclamation expressing surprise or amazement. Holy smokes! Have you ever seen a car go so fast? We won the lottery? Holy smoke, that's amazing news! Are you all right? Holy smokes, we could have been killed in that accident!
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She has appeared partially naked in films such as 'Little Children', 'The Reader', 'Holy Smoke!' and the recent Emmy-winning US television drama 'Mildred Pierce'.
HOLY smoke! A Midland clergywoman has won an award after being nominated by her flock of firemen.
HOLY smoke! Look what's set to motor into Newcastle's Metro Radio Arena next month.
HOLY Smoke! Batman has ditched his traditional crime-ridden beat of Gotham and set his latest comic strip caper in London.
* HOLY SMOKE!: Top Huddersfield funk-meisters Nu Popes are playing Marsden Jazz Festival and Oxjam next month
Pakistan, May 16 -- Holy smoke! That's what you call a booboo, to put it mildly.
of Otago), and Bessiere (Institut national d'histoire de l'art, France) present 15 essays critically exploring the works of New Zealand-born filmmaker Jane Campion, director of Sweetie, An Angel at my Table, The Piano, The Portrait of a Lady, Holy Smoke!, and In the Cut.
HOLY Smoke! More than 100 employees in the new wing of Leinster House were forced to leave the building on Thursday after some Fine Gaeler forgot to take soup out of the microwave.
HOLY SMOKE! This tale is a terrific twisted look at crime from the perspective of a small timer who is being squeezed by organized groups who want the whole action.
HOLY smoke! Fancy impressing your boy/girlfriend with your very own Batmobile?
HOLY SMOKE! The Premiership's players are already celebrating Christmas with more style than they celebrate their goals...
It produced Campion's most recent pic, "Holy Smoke!" and is co-financing "Birthday Girl," which stars Kidman.
Fulfilling a motive as transparent as Kim's top, the internet was soon awash with criticisms of religious appropriation which only served to plug the controversial candle and, holy smoke! It sold out in a matter of hours.
HOLY smoke! I'm going to sue the people who made that bicycle of mine for not telling me that I might fall off it and bust my knee.
Holy Smoke! has turned the religious television experience on its head, with the devil getting in on the act.
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