Re: CHAT: sacre bleu!
| From: | <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, March 10, 2004, 21:05 |
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Mark J. Reed scripsit:
> Can someone enlighten me to the origin of this phrase?
> What's sacred or holy about the color blue?
It's just a euphemism for "sacre Dieu", analogous to "darned" for "damned"
in English (though "darned" gets its specific phonemes from "tarnal",
a variant of "Eternal").
--
John Cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
Does anybody want any flotsam? / I've gotsam.
Does anybody want any jetsam? / I can getsam.
--Ogden Nash, No Doctors Today, Thank You
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