“A French oath. 1869–. . . . [Literally ‘sacred blue’, euphemism for sacré Dieu ‘sacred God’.]”
—Stone the Crows: Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang, second edition, 2008.
“A French oath. 1869–. . . . [Literally ‘sacred blue’, euphemism for sacré Dieu ‘sacred God’.]”
—Stone the Crows: Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang, second edition, 2008.
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