An exclamation expressive of sorrow, pity, or apprehension of evil; -- in old writers, sometimes followed by day or white; alas the day, like alack a day, or alas the white.
Alas and alack means sadly or too bad.
"Alas" is an interjection of commiseration, sorrow, regret, or grief.
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Best and earliest I've been able to find is in the lyrics of "The Man on the Flying Trapeze" especially as performed in the movie It Happened One Night (1934).
It could be a corruption of a Shakespearian quote from Hamlet, in which the character says "Alas, poor Yorik, I knew him." The slang makes it difficult, though, as it may just be "I hardly knew her." which seems simple enough.
Alas and alack means sadly or too bad.
'Eheu' is a Latin interjection meaning 'Alas!'
Leopoldo Alas's birth name is Leopoldo Alas Mnguez.
Alas, I could not answer this question.
Alas Building was created in 1955.
Louie Alas was born in 1963.
Mel Alas was born in 1969.
Alas Nacionales was created in 199#.
Alas Nacionales ended in 1996.
Banco Alas was created in 1979.
Banco Alas ended in 1986.
Arnold Alas died in 1990.