shock, horror!
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› an expression used when you are pretending to feel very shocked by a piece of news: Shock, horror! Carl James was seen talking to a woman and it wasn't his wife.InterjectionsSounds used as interjectionsExpressions of surprise
(Definition of shock, horror! from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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