sheesh
/ʃiːʃ
/exclamation
Used to express disbelief or exasperation.Sure, it's got snappy puns and dialogue but sheesh!...
- No sign of it getting any colder yet though… sheesh!
- And to think this is just my thirty-first Christmas, sheesh!
Origin
1950s: probably an alteration of jeez.
- not for nothing
- not-for-profit
- not gate
- not give a bugger
- not give a shit
- not give a stuff
- not give a tinker's curse (or cuss or damn)
- not give (or care) a damn
- not give (or care) a fig
- not give (or care) a monkey's
- not give (or care) a rat's ass
- not give (or care) a whoop
- not give something houseroom
- not-go
- not go any further
- not guilty
- not half
- no thanks to
- not have a bar of
- not have a cat in hell's chance
- not have a leg to stand on
- not have a penny to bless oneself with
- not have a pot to piss in
- not have a prayer
- not have a shot in one's locker