Bless Your Heart
The truth is that there are many meanings to “Bless your heart.” It depends on the usage. For one thing, this can be a passive-aggressive way to say that someone is wrong. If it is not that, it might also be a way to show sympathy! On the other hand, you can also use it as nothing more than an exclamation. You should be on the lookout for the tone and delivery to figure out what they mean by it. 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
This is a fun little phrase, but no one knows how it came to be. “Heavens to Betsy” is a phrase used to show surprise at something that has just happened. A lot of people think that it has something to do with Betsy Ross, but this remains unverified. Its first known usage was in the fifth volume of an American journal called Ballou’s Dollar Monthly Magazine. This was published all the way back in January 1857. There are also people who think that it was a euphemism for “Hell’s bells” instead.
Heavens To Betsy