Do you still use the phrase " whoops a daisy " ??

Like when you accidently bump into someone, do you say whoops a daisy? By the way, what does this strange saying mean?

Do you still use the phrase " whoops a daisy " ??
damn straight - what a silly sausage you are
Reply:Yes, everytime I watch Notting Hill.
Reply:Simply a fancy way of saying "Oops!"

And I never use it. Unless I'm acting or something.

:o)
Reply:Yep. I work in childcare so i tend to use it a bit, rather than saying 'Oh ****'...lol. Like second nature.

Hope that helps.
Reply:Sometimes especially when the kids were little

but I have no idea what it means

strange saying lol
Reply:I dont know what it means but I use it

Also

Holy Moses

Good Grief

If something has been a long time it been either 'a Coons age' or 'a month of Sundays'.

And a bunch of others I cant think of right now.
Reply:nope i use oh ****
Reply:I don't. My cousin does all the time, though.
Reply:Never used it.
Reply:It means like "My Bad" So like when u spill something, bump into something, make someone mad, by the way it's "whoopsy-daisy".
Reply:its from the 1920's and it means oops, i might have said it once, but im can't remember
Reply:Hugh Grant did, in Notting Hill and I've no idea what it means



=D sorry
Reply:No, I exchanged it for "wham-a-doodle!"
Reply:I don't use it much, but sometimes I do.



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From Ted Sherarts:



Like the British say "sorry", we Americans say oops. Where does oops from? Thanks.



First off, we say oops (and whoops) in Britain, too. In fact, my earliest reference is in a British dictionary which dates it to 1930. For such a well-established word, this seems incredibly recent. My guess is that it derives from ups-a-daisy, an apparently meaningless phrase said to a child after a fall. This usage dates from the 18th century and, according to Eric Partridge (the great expert on English slang) ups-a-daisy was sometimes written oops-a-daisy and even whoops-a-daisy.