Sam Hell

[Mark Mandel]

And "What (in) the Sam Hill ...", which I now see is well covered in the WP
article Larry cites.

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On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 12:38 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

> 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)<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Hill_%28euphemism%29>,
> with a link to
> Michael Quinion's blog.
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