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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.
The phrase has several variants: (the/a) Devil (is) in the detail(s).The original expression as, "God is in the detail" with the word detail being singular, colloquial usage often ends the idiom as details plural; where the word detail without an s can be used as both a singular and collective noun.
A proverbial phrase or expression is a type of conventional saying similar to a proverb and transmitted by oral tradition. The difference is that a proverb is a fixed expression, while a proverbial phrase permits alterations to fit the grammar of the context. [1] [2] In 1768, John Ray defined a proverbial phrase as:
Some of those who believe in backmasking, along with some Christian fundamentalists, believe messages such as "Hail Satan" may subliminally inspire people to do evil, [32] a view which may have received some reinforcement when the phrase was used as part of the vandalizing of churches, [33] but its use then might have been the expression of a general anti-religious sentiment, as suggested by ...
The modern Welsh word for the Anglerfish is Cythraul y Môr (Cythraul of the seas). The Cythraul is the name of a character in the MMORPG video game, World of Warcraft produced by Blizzard Entertainment. A creature named the Cythraul appears as one of the three Apocalypse Kings in the Skulduggery Pleasant fantasy novels by Irish author Derek Landy.
The word denotes "by way of" or "by means of", e. g., "I will contact you via email". via media: middle road/way: This phrase describes a compromise between two extremes or the radical center political position. via, veritas, vita: the Way, the Truth, [and] the Life: Words of Jesus Christ in John 14:6; motto of many institutions viam sapientiae ...
May the devil fly off with your worries. May God bless you forever and ever. 27. May the hinges of our friendship never grow rusty. 28. We cannot share this sorrow If we haven't grieved a while.
The phrase may have entered popular use in English through the Book of Common Prayer, which includes in its Litany: "[F]rom al the deceytes of the worlde, the fleshe, and the deuill: Good lorde deliuer us." Similarly, the rite of baptism requires renunciations of the devil, the world, and the flesh. [9]