(UK, NZ, minced oath) by God.
Couldn't hear the brass / Couldn't hear the drum / He was in a class by himself, by gum!
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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(US, euphemistic) goddammit.