"ёлки-моталки" meaning in Russian

{
  "etymology_text": "Euphemistic alteration of ёб твою́ мать (job tvojú matʹ), a vulgar curse.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ёлки-мота́лки",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "jólki-motálki",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ru",
        "2": "interjection",
        "head": "ёлки-мота́лки"
      },
      "expansion": "ёлки-мота́лки • (jólki-motálki)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Russian",
  "lang_code": "ru",
  "pos": "intj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Russian entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "name": "Russian minced oaths",
          "parents": [
            "Minced oaths",
            "Euphemisms",
            "Figures of speech",
            "Rhetoric",
            "Language",
            "Communication",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "“We are both nineteen, we have our whole life ahead of us, drat it…”",
          "ref": "2000, Виктор Астафьев, Мелодия Чайковского:",
          "roman": "— Nam po devjatnádcatʹ let, nam ješčó žitʹ da žitʹ, jólki-motálki…",
          "text": "— Нам по девятна́дцать лет, нам ещё жить да жить, ёлки-мота́лки…",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "drat!, fiddlesticks! (expression of dismay, annoyance, or surprise)"
      ],
      "id": "en-ёлки-моталки-ru-intj-tj4iTJAQ",
      "links": [
        [
          "minced oath",
          "minced oath"
        ],
        [
          "drat",
          "drat"
        ],
        [
          "fiddlesticks",
          "fiddlesticks"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "minced oath",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(minced oath, colloquial) drat!, fiddlesticks! (expression of dismay, annoyance, or surprise)"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "ёлки-па́лки"
        },
        {
          "word": "ё-моё"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ˌjɵɫkʲɪ mɐˈtaɫkʲɪ]"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈjɵɫkʲɪ mɐˌtaɫkʲɪ]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ёлки-моталки"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Euphemistic alteration of ёб твою́ мать (job tvojú matʹ), a vulgar curse.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ёлки-мота́лки",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "jólki-motálki",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ru",
        "2": "interjection",
        "head": "ёлки-мота́лки"
      },
      "expansion": "ёлки-мота́лки • (jólki-motálki)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Russian",
  "lang_code": "ru",
  "pos": "intj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Russian colloquialisms",
        "Russian entries with incorrect language header",
        "Russian interjections",
        "Russian lemmas",
        "Russian minced oaths",
        "Russian multiword terms",
        "Russian terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Russian terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "“We are both nineteen, we have our whole life ahead of us, drat it…”",
          "ref": "2000, Виктор Астафьев, Мелодия Чайковского:",
          "roman": "— Nam po devjatnádcatʹ let, nam ješčó žitʹ da žitʹ, jólki-motálki…",
          "text": "— Нам по девятна́дцать лет, нам ещё жить да жить, ёлки-мота́лки…",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "drat!, fiddlesticks! (expression of dismay, annoyance, or surprise)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "minced oath",
          "minced oath"
        ],
        [
          "drat",
          "drat"
        ],
        [
          "fiddlesticks",
          "fiddlesticks"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "minced oath",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(minced oath, colloquial) drat!, fiddlesticks! (expression of dismay, annoyance, or surprise)"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "ёлки-па́лки"
        },
        {
          "word": "ё-моё"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ˌjɵɫkʲɪ mɐˈtaɫkʲɪ]"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈjɵɫkʲɪ mɐˌtaɫkʲɪ]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ёлки-моталки"
}