Bless Your Heart
The truth is that there are many meanings to “Bless your heart.” This depends on the use. This can be a passive-aggressive way to say that somebody is wrong, for one thing. If it’s not that, it could be a way to show sympathy as well! You can also, on the other hand, use it as nothing more than an exclamation. To figure out what they mean by it, you should be on the lookout for the tone and delivery. Reese Witherspoon once talked about it and said, “How we feel about everybody… It’s what we say literally about everybody we know. And we mean it. We do.”
Bless Your Heart
Heavens To Betsy
It’s a fun little phrase, but nobody knows how it turned out to be. “Heavens to Betsy” is a phrase used to show surprise at something that has just happened. It has something to do with Betsy Ross, a lot of people think, but this remains unverified. In the fifth volume of an American journal called Ballou’s Dollar Monthly Magazine, its first known usage was. This was posted back in January 1857, all the way back. There are also those who believe it was instead a euphemism for “Hell’s bells.”
Heavens To Betsy