>>>>>>Citron is French (and similar in many Euro lang's) FOR lemon. So is citron Yiddish or something and what fruit is "like" a lemon but not one - a lime?
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>>>>>A limon...
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>>>>What the Sam Hill is that? but another French word for lemon?
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>>>Who exactly
is Sam Hill anyway?
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>>I d'nno! I just know Clark Kent's boss keeps saying it, presumably as a euphemism for "{something} hell"
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>From the Word Detective,
http://www.word-detective.com/080401.html, "The explanation of "Sam Hill" is actually pretty simple -- it's an early 19th century American euphemism for "hell" used as an oath."
Thanks Jim, but isn't that what I just said? :-)
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.
