Displaying a digital clock as well will help children see the relationship between an analog and a digital clock time system. The analemma offers a graphic display of one of the lessons a horologium can teach: the difference between clock time and sun time.
goodness gracious. Also,good gracious;gracious sakes. Exclamation of surprise, dismay, or alarm, as in Goodness gracious! You've forgotten your ticket. Both goodness and gracious originally alluded to the good (or grace) of God, but these colloquial expressions, which date from the 1700s, are not considered either vulgar or blasphemous.
(idiomatic, euphemistic, dated) Oh my God. 1861, Henry Mills Alden, âThe Debatable Babyâ, in Harper's new monthly magazine, volume 22, number 132, page 776: Oh, my goodness gracious! who'd have thought it? Oh, my soul and body! exclaimed Ben, dropping the cover, and jumping up with a perfectly absurd look of ... 1865, Charles Dickens, âAll the Year Round. A Weekly Journal.â, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 13-14, page 551: Oh, my goodness gracious me! where was I? Where was Robert?