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raccoon

(31,518 posts) Mon May 22, 2023, 06:15 AM May 2023

Anyone heard the expression "be the Jesus" used? [View all]

I am reading a book called KIT‘S LAW about a family living In a Newfoundland outport in the 1950s or 60s. One of the characters keeps using this expression.

One example:

“Be the Jesus, Josie, if you ever gets up and runs out of church again… “

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Anyone heard the expression "be the Jesus" used? [View all] raccoon May 2023 OP

try DARE dictionary. if not found, you can submit a citation Tetrachloride May 2023 #1

Finally found in Amazon, I guessed the words raccoon May 2023 #2

Univ of Wisconsin - Dictionary of American Regional English Tetrachloride May 2023 #3

Newfoundland is in Canada. It has never been American. . . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz May 2023 #6

North American? N/T odins folly May 2023 #8

I've (occasionally) heard stopdiggin May 2023 #4

Yeah, that's what my uncle used to say, gab13by13 May 2023 #7

That's what I think it is. By the Jesus is Anglo/Irish . yorkster May 2023 #9

I've often heard "bejesus" (without "the"), as in "scared the bejesus Tanuki May 2023 #5