Ye gods (and little fishes)!
Idiom Meaning: Inf. What a surprising thing!
Idiom Example:
Ye gods and little fishes! Someone covered my car with broken eggs!
Another example from the news:
Paying for deportation, torture
Family deported to Libya can return - if it pays $6,800, Oct. 25
What kind of inhuman beings inhabit Canada immigration? More and more often, refugees are being treated unfairly.
In this unbelievable case, refugee status was wrongfully denied to a family. They were sent to Libya where the father was imprisoned and tortured. Then, after the family had lived in a shipping container (a shipping container!) in a refugee camp for a year (a year!), Ottawa kindly and compassionately agreed to let them back into Canada on humanitarian grounds.
This magnanimous gesture on the part of our family-friendly Harper government has a slight catch. The Benhmudas must pay back to the government the $6,000 it cost to send them to Libya to experience prison and torture. Ye gods! Additional costs bring the total to $6,800. After they have paid this, the generous government will let them apply for a federal loan for the transportation costs of their return. What thoughtfulness. Read the full the news at: http://www.thestar.com/opinion/letters_to_the_editors/2013/10/30/paying_for_deportation_torture.html
READ MORE - English Idiom: Ye gods (and little fish!) (meaning and examples)
Idiom Meaning: Inf. What a surprising thing!
Idiom Example:
Ye gods and little fishes! Someone covered my car with broken eggs!
Another example from the news:
Paying for deportation, torture
Family deported to Libya can return - if it pays $6,800, Oct. 25
What kind of inhuman beings inhabit Canada immigration? More and more often, refugees are being treated unfairly.
In this unbelievable case, refugee status was wrongfully denied to a family. They were sent to Libya where the father was imprisoned and tortured. Then, after the family had lived in a shipping container (a shipping container!) in a refugee camp for a year (a year!), Ottawa kindly and compassionately agreed to let them back into Canada on humanitarian grounds.
This magnanimous gesture on the part of our family-friendly Harper government has a slight catch. The Benhmudas must pay back to the government the $6,000 it cost to send them to Libya to experience prison and torture. Ye gods! Additional costs bring the total to $6,800. After they have paid this, the generous government will let them apply for a federal loan for the transportation costs of their return. What thoughtfulness. Read the full the news at: http://www.thestar.com/opinion/letters_to_the_editors/2013/10/30/paying_for_deportation_torture.html