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Jiminy Crickets
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Interjection
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en Jiminy Cricket.
en Thomas A. Janvier s:en:Beverly's Pneumatic Cat-Silencer 1912 "Jiminy crickets, Bish!" exclaimed the Doctor, "what sort of hash are you and the Judge giving us? This isn't anybody's red-hot folk-lore society! Drop it all—can't you?
en 1992 Truman's Birthplace: Lamar, Missouri Reba Young 27 Some day, I feel like the old timer who once said, "Jiminy Crickets, hain't life changed since I was a boy?"
en 2004 Little Farm Down the Lane Bonnie Bedi Siegrist "Jiminy Crickets, what's all the racket about," he hollered.
en 2011 Tonino John G. Stoffolano Jr. Dave was telling Pierangelo something about the overall plot, and when the waitress accidentally spilled a drink on him, Dave abruptly shouted, “Jiminy Crickets!”