What does "ya zha smadia" mean in English?

Hi,
My mom (who has since passed) used to say something that sounded like "yazha smadia" as an expression of frustration. She may have been garbling it slightly because she didn't speak Polish, but had picked up just a few phrases from her Polish grandparents who raised her. I believe she told me it meant "Jesus,Mary and Joseph", but I don't think that's right, at least not literally.

Can someone tell me what this means and the correct Polish spelling?
Thanks!

i'm not Polish but i think she wanted to say "Jezus Maria" otherwise i can't relate this to anything else in Polish that would make sense to me.

I agree with bond - it can be "Jezus Maria" expression - nothing else comes to my mind, and I'm Polish.
"Jesus, Mary and Joseph" translation also well illustrate these words.

Jezus Maria. No doubt about it.

My Polish mother and her sisters said the exact same thing. Definitely not "Maria". I got to thinking about it today and thought I would Google it. That's what led me here. The phrase has to have some meaning to it. I catch myself saying it sometime. Mom would be proud.

Polish "r" can sound a lot like an English "d", so "Maria" can sound like "Madia". The same with Spanish "r". I used to be a dorm daddy and one on the girls in the dorm was a Mexican called "Maria". The other students used to call her "Muddy" because that's what they think they heard when she said her name, and it sorta stuck.

Let me guess, you say it when you received some kind of news just before you ask what happen?
Perhaps when you dropped something, fell down or someone else did etc. Possibly when you got caught off guard and got scared?

Then your mom would definitely be proud of you, say something like good boy just before correcting your pronunciation that you have failed so miserably at.

We are Polish, and my parents, who were fluent in Polish, pronounced it this way: Yezoosmadia You-szhefi (Jesus, Mary, Joseph). Sometimes they only said the first part. Also, my dad always used to say "check-i, check-i" when he wanted me to wait & pay attention.

it's czekaj or czekej depending on the region your dad was from

Jezus Maria!

My mother used to utter that, sounding just like you spelled it, but she came from a Serbian speaking home. (she did understand my father's Polish speaking family, though, and they understood her Polo-Serbian pidgin lingo).

my great grandmother, grandmother and mother used to say something that sounded like:" Hawke-ay jesuz maria"(with a very ROLLED "R").. which i was told meant Jesus, Mary and Joseph in Slovak.. always heard this when we did something wrong as kids!!!!LOL!

Hawke-ay meant Joseph? In Slovak? Probably not.

My grandmother said the same thing. She was from the town of Koprivnika which when she was born was still in Austria-Hungary

My dad was Hungarian and this phrase Yezoosmadia then add St. Joseph sounds like what he would say in times of frustration and he said it meant Jesus Mary Joseph

Jezus Maria. You hear people (usually older people) saying it now and again.

Maybe older people, everyone else used to say " kurwa mać" - phrase that performs the same function.