dearexclamationinformal
mepronoun
"The dinner was excellent except that they served red wine with the chicken." "Dear me! That will never do!"
Dear me, I never thought I would do as badly as that in the exam.
Dear me, everything has gone wrong this week.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Linguistics: interjections
aiyo
attaboy
attagirl
auf Wiedersehen
aw shucks
doctor
eat your heart outidiom
figure
guess
marry
mazel tov
more
more power to your elbow!idiom
need
roll
yoink
you know something?idiom
you should have seen/heard something/someoneidiom
you the man!idiom
yuk