great Caesar's ghost
Emphatic surprise phrase
Great Caesar's ghost is an exclamation of surprise or astonishment, invoking the spirit of Julius Caesar for dramatic effect.
The phrase sounds deliberately old-fashioned and theatrical, often used with comic exaggeration: Great Caesar's ghost, you scared me!
It gained cultural staying power as a favorite oath of Perry White, the newspaper editor in Superman stories.
- PhantomGhost or famous aircraft
- SupermanMetropolis's flying defender
- Man of SteelIndestructible superhero's epithet
- Lois LaneNewspaper reporter, Metropolis
- Daily PlanetFictional metropolitan broadsheet
mild-mannered reporter · Metropolis · et tu Brute · Brutus · Clark Kent · Cleopatra · Poltergeist · Augustus · interjection · Banshee · holy smoke · holy cow · good grief · leaping lizards · jumping Jehoshaphat · Cicero · Nero · Constantine
great Caesar's ghostholy shit
Profane expression of shock
what the fuck · goddamn · holy fuck · Jesus Christ · son of a bitch
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