Ladies and gentlemen: this is THE management cereal of choice. The secret is out; eating the right breakfast might get you your promotion! (Or not. But this is the cereal of one of the supervisors at work.)
English exclamations in North America tend to have Christian allusions. "Holy cow" is another example of this phenomenon, and was supposedly a replacement exclamation for the term "holy Christ".
In trying for a replacement for "holy cow" many years back I came up with "holy socks". Since holy and holey sound about the same, "holey socks" is the new exclamation of trendy, worldly, shoe-loving people like you and me. Holey socks!
...But I confess: I must have a hankering for the word "cow" because when something surprises/shocks me, what often slips out? ..."Holy cow".
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