Sam Hell

[Laurence Horn]

At 12:33 AM -0400 7/22/10, Laurence Horn wrote:
>>At 7/21/2010 04:07 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>>>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.
>>
>>Eggcorn of or blend with what?
>>
>Blend of "Sam Hill" with "what in hell"
>
P.S.  On the former, cf.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Hill_(euphemism), with a link to
Michael Quinion's blog.

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