Help with a phrase: Ежкин кот!

Paul B. Gallagher paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM
Fri May 23 00:36:43 UTC 2014


Andrea Gregovich wrote:

> Hello Folks,
>
> Can someone fill me in on the phrase "Ежкин кот!" ?  In context it
> appears to be used as an exclamation of frustration when something goes
> wrong, like "Damn and blast!"  But googling turns up a pet store by that
> name so I'm betting it has a fun etymology.

See here:
<http://russian.stackexchange.com/questions/2997/what-does-%D1%91%D1%88%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BD-%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%82-mean>
or here:
<http://russian.stackexchange.com/questions/2997/what-does-ёшкин-кот-mean>

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