Good Grief! Definition

grief
noun

1a. Great sorrow and unhappiness, especially at someone's death;

Thesaurus: sorrow, anguish, misery, distress, bereavement, woe, pain, lamentation.
1b. An event that is the source of this.

Thesaurus: tribulation, affliction, trouble, difficulty, hardship.
3. colloq
Trouble or bother.
Example: was getting grief from her parents for staying out late

Idiom: come to grief

To end in failure.

To have an accident.

Idiom: Good Grief!

An exclamation expressing shock, surprise, fear, etc.

Etymology: 13c: from French grever to grieve.