"Heavens to Murgatroyd" is also used in place of Betsy, no idea why. Billy-be-damned is, I think, an Aussie or Cockney expression. The evening is young when there is plenty of evening ahead of you, as is anything that is early in its life-cycle!

Ebbie, if you sit in the barn and wait for the cows to come home, you'll wait a while. They have a lot of inertia and can't tell time real well. If you're lucky, they might come home after dark wondering why no-one told them what time it was!! That's why small boys on farms are sent out with switches to round 'em up.

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