Where did the saying "holy moly" come from?
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Tonight I went to see "Eight Below Zero" with my daughter and there was a part that really is a startler and the guy a ways behind said "Holy ****".  His response was so funny I had a good laugh.
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It is a quote from Saint Augustine - "He who sings prays twice". It is simply meant to describe the high place of music in worship.
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"The Ten Commandments" with Chuck Heston.\nThe line is uttered by the immortal Edward G. Robinson.....
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In 1408 a czech guy named Huss protested against the catholic church saying it had strayed from the letter of the law, ET is an allegory for the life of Christ (yeah, I'm not kidding). Maybe there could be a connection there? Good luck,
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You should spell it "sacrebleu". We also use "sacredieu". It is an interjection to express surprise. \nIt is more or less a swearword which equivalent would be "Jesus" or "For God sake"...
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It comes from I think the movie "American pie" if I remember correctly. 'Stiffler' uses it. It means Mother I'd like to f*ck.
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It's probably a replacement word for using Jesus' name improperly.  I also use "holy swiss," and "cheese and rice" as replacements in polite enough company.
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there are two supposed origins - \n1. is from the word nut, meaning hard seed, which is called "hnutu" in Old English or "*khnut" in Proto-Germanic\n\n2. from earlier be nutts upon "be very fond of" (1785), which is possibly from nuts (noun, plural) "any source of pleasure" (1617), from nut (described above). Sense influenced probably by metaphoric application of nut to "head" (1846, e.g. to be off one's nut "be insane," 1860). Nut "crazy person, crank" is attested from 1903, (British form nutter first attested 1958).
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God invented it with logical expression: IF you obey, THEN I will be your God and you will be My people, ELSE I will bring fire and brimstone.\n\nJohnny
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Origins of the word JEWEL\n\nc.1290, "article of value used for adornment," Anglo-Fr. juel, O.Fr. juel, jouel "ornament, jewel" (12c.), perhaps from M.L. jocale, from L. jocus "pastime, sport," in V.L. "that which causes joy" (see joke). Another theory traces it to L. gaudium, also with a notion of "rejoice." Sense of "precious stone" developed early 14c.
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Yes, actually I did! It comes from Amun.\n\nAnyway the reason why they do this is because they are unaware of where the word comes from. Traditions were adopted my different cultures, words from different languages and original meanings are often lost in the process as one meaning becomes the everyday, accepted one, repeated by many others who genuinely believe that it means something that it does not. Christians may also sing about holly and ivy, but it has little to do with the crown of thorns that Jesus wore and far more to do with paganism and druidry!
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ummm...they come from damnation which is a synonym for condemnation.  to damn is to condemn.  people use it but don't really know what it means.  when they say it, they're actually condemning the person to hell, or in the case of "goddamn" asking God to sentence the person to hell.  it truly is a curse on someone.\n\ni'm not sure when it was first used, but it would have started as a regular word used as "to condemn".  most likely, it was a religiously-affiliated word considering its topic of hell and God.
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That is the sentence...Jesus was making a point about his diety. God was often refered to as I am... When moses was sent to free gods people he was told to tell pharoh i am said to let my people go. He was also letting the people know that he was around many years before he was born a man.
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It comes from the ancient Hebrew words that loosley translate to\nwhat a load of crap
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'... It’s a fairly common American expression, known for much of the twentieth century. But it’s one about which almost no information exists, at least in the two dozen or so reference books I’ve consulted. William and Mary Morris, in their Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins, confess to the same difficulty. A handbasket is just a basket to be carried in the hand (my thanks to the Oxford English Dictionary for that gem of definition). The Dictionary of American Regional English records to go to heaven in a handbasket rather earlier than the alternative, which doesn’t appear in print until the 1940s (Walt Quader tells me that Burton Stevenson included a citation in his Home Book of Proverbs, Maxims and Familiar Phrases from Bayard Kendrick’s The Odor of Violets, published in 1941). But DARE quotes a related expression from 1714: “A committee brought in something about Piscataqua. Govr said he would give his head in a Handbasket as soon as he would pass it”, which suggests that it, or at least phrases like it, have been around in the spoken language for a long time. For example, there’s an even older expression, to go to heaven in a wheelbarrow, recorded as early as 1629, which also meant “to go to hell”. I can only assume that the alliteration of the hs has had a lot to do with the success of the various phrases, and that perhaps handbasket suggests something easily and speedily done.'
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It's a quote:\n\nexodus 21:23  And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,\n21:24 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,\n\nLev. 24:20  Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him again.\n\nDeut. 19:21  And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.\n\nMatt 5:38  Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth:\n5:39 But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
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Etymology\nCreative origin by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels. Yahoo, a race of brutes, who look and act like man. \nalso the rebel battle yell (southern confederate, CSA) cried with a shrill yeaaaaa hoo as in yea, though I walk in the valley of death... \n\nNoun\nA rough, coarse, or uncouth person; yokel; lout \nA loud boisterous person. \nA humanoid cryptid said to exist in parts of eastern Australia. \n\nInterjection\nAn exclamation of joy \nA battle cry