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cheese and rice en · INTJ
Meanings
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Euphemism or minced oath for Jesus Christ
“Cheese and rice!” he screamed. Ryan’s mother had taught her children never to take the Lord’s name in vain. so he’d developed a couple of replacement phrases over the years. “Cheese and rice!” he hollered once more before clapping a hand over his mouth and freezing in place as his toe throbbed.
2008, Karen Neches, chapter four, in Earthly Pleasures: a novel, Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, via Internet Archive, →ISBN, page 44:I know the water was needed, but Cheese and Rice!
1999 September 16, Galen Hekhuis <ghekhuis@earthlink.net>, “Re: Marshal Law in Summersville!”, in rec.boats.paddle (Usenet), via Google Groups, archived from the original on 11 Jul 2026: