Sacré bleu!
Language Log 2025-10-21
Summary:
I could write an entire post about this euphemistic French oath (lit., "sacred blue"), but I leave it to LL readers to figure out how it fits in to what follows. Nowadays it is used more in English than in French. (Wiktionary; Wikipedia) Italian blasphemy and German ingenuity: how swear words differ around the worldOnce […]