Sam Hell

[Laurence Horn]

At 3:58 PM -0400 7/21/10, Mark Mandel wrote:
>I know "Sam Hill". Perhaps I should have said plainly that this was a
>variant on it

Or, as Jerry would point out, a blend.

LH

>that I hadn't seen before, perhaps even an eggcorn.
>
>m a m
>
>On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 9:51 PM, Jonathan Lighter
><wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>  1974 _Village Voice_ (June 13) 4: Now what in the Sam Hell can a fusion
>  > bomb
>>  do?
>>
>>  Syn. _Sam Hill_ goes back to at least 1827.
>>
>>
>  > JL

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