Heavens to...

[Steve K.]

On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Peter A. McGraw wrote:

> One of our secretaries just asked me if I knew where the expression
> "Heavens to Murgatroyd" came from.  I hadn't a clue.  I guess I'd heard it
> before, but certainly not often.  DARE has only the more familiar "Heavens
> to Betsy," with "etym. unknown."

It was the catch phrase of the cartoon character Snagglepuss.

(I love google. I knew it belonged to a cartoon character,
so I typed in that phrase plus cartoon, and came up with the answer
immediately.) Incidentally, there appears to be a Canadian band by that
name.



--- Steve K.