horror of horrors
UK humorousDefinition
› said when you are telling someone about a very bad or embarrassing situation: Then I went to the toilets and, horror of horrors, discovered that my zip had been undone.Surprised
(Definition of horror of horrors from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- aback adverb
- agape adjective
- aghast adjective
- amazed adjective
- astonished adjective
- dumbfounded adjective
- eyes out on stalks idiom
- gobsmacked adjective
- goggle-eyed adjective
- jump/leap out of your skin idiom
- not believe your eyes/ears idiom
- not believe your luck idiom
- not know what has hit you idiom
- not know what hit you idiom
- open-eyed adjective
- staggered adjective
- stunned adjective
- surprised adjective
- thunderstruck adjective
- wonder verb (SURPRISE)
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Surprised
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