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Sam Hill is an American English slang phrase, a euphemism or minced oath for "the devil" or "hell" personified (as in, "What in the Sam Hill is that?"). Etymologist Michael Quinion and others date the expression back to the late 1830s; [1] [2] they and others [3] consider the expression to have been a simple bowdlerization, with, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, an unknown origin.
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A palindrome is a word, number, phrase, or other sequence of symbols that reads the same backwards as forwards, such as the sentence: "A man, a plan, a canal – Panama". ". Following is a list of palindromic phrases of two or more words in the English language, found in multiple independent collections of palindromic phra
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From "'tis the eye of childhood / That fears a painted devil." (II.ii): To Fear a Painted Devil, 1965 novel by Ruth Rendell; A Painted Devil, 1975 novel by Rachel Billington; Wash This Blood Clean from My Hand by Fred Vargas (II.ii) A Heart So White by Javier Marías (II.ii) Look to the Lady by Margery Allingham (II.iii) Light Thickens by Ngaio ...
Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2000, 2002 (as The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary), David E. Schultz and S. T. Joshi, eds. Lengthy, information-packed introduction covers The Devil's Dictionary as a work of moral instruction and provides the most detailed history of Bierce's writing of the text, the 1906 book publication of The Cynic's ...
The Devil figures much more prominently in the New Testament and in Christian theology than in the Old Testament. [31] The Devil is a unique entity throughout the New Testament, neither identical to the demons nor the fallen angels, [32] [33] the tempter and perhaps rules over the kingdoms of earth. [34]