God whacked?
    Tony Glaser 
    tonyglaser at MINDSPRING.COM
       
    Thu Jan 18 15:04:52 UTC 2001
    
    
  
>Has anyone heard the phrase "god whacked" before?  As in Madeline
>Albright was god whacked when she found out about her jewish reletives.
>I heard it used on the Todd Munt show npr by and editor for the
>atlantic.
>
>I am not an academic person.  Is this group only for academic
>inquiries?  The faq  did not address this.
>
>Jane P Parker
>
>Woodland MI
It's "gobsmacked" - a British phrase (gob = mouth), implying that you
were as just as surprised as if someone had smacked you across the
mouth.
Tony Glaser
    
    
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