Hand to God

[Wilson Gray]

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
> Influenced by "(sitting on) the right hand of God"?

"[I raise my right] hand to God (as though I were swearing on the Bible?)!"


Like Ron, I've been hearing various combinations, permutations, and
probabilities of this all of my life. People don't only say it, but
they also perform the gesture as much as they want to.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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