dearexclamationinformal
Oh dear, is it really time to go already?
Oh dear. The boss looks like she's in one of her bad moods again.
Oh dear, why is there always something going wrong with this car?
Oh dear. I don't have anything suitable to wear to the interview tomorrow.
Oh dear. We seem to have lost the connection to our correspondent in San Francisco.
Oh dear, that all sounds a bit grim.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Linguistics: interjections
aiyo
attaboy
attagirl
auf Wiedersehen
aw shucks
doctor
eat your heart outidiom
figure
guess
lordy
marry
mazel tov
more
more power to your elbow!idiom
roll
yoink
you know something?idiom
you should have seen/heard something/someoneidiom
you the man!idiom
yuk