dog my cats
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- (idiomatic) Used as a mild oath, or as an expression of astonishment
- 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC:
- Why, dog my cats, they must a ben a house-full o' niggers in there every night for four weeks to a done all that work, Sister Phelps.
- 1906, O. Henry, The Four Million:
- "I began to feel sorry for Hubby, dog my cats if I didn't."
- Buffalo Bill Cody: "Dog my cats" — Preston Sturgis, "Annie Oakley", 1935
- Salesman: "Well, dog my cats!" — Moroni Olsen, "Christmas in July", 1940
- Joe Ross: "Dog my cats indeed" — David Mamet, "The Spanish Prisoner", 1997
- Marshall Eriksen: "Well, dog my cats..." — Jason Segel, "How I Met Your Mother", 2010