Sam Hill (euphemism)

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title: Sam Hill (euphemism)
text: Sam Hill is an American English slang phrase, a euphemism or minced oath for "the devil" or "hell" personified. Etymologist Michael Quinion and others date the expression back to the late 1830s; they and others consider the expression to have been a simple bowdlerization, with, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, an unknown origin.
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description: American English slang phrase
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