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Sam Hill (euphemism)

American English slang phrase

Sam Hill is an American Englishslang phrase, a euphemism or minced oath for "the devil" or "hell" personified (as in, "What in the Sam Hill is that?").

EtymologistMichael 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.

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    • Possible referents

    Candidate referents for the use date back to at least the 19th century. The following are possibilities of the term's origin.

    • Euphemism for the devil:H. L. Mencken suggested that the phrase derives from Samiel, the name of the Devil in Der Freischütz, an opera by Carl Maria von Weber that was performed in New York City in 1825.

      The phrase "Sa' m Hill" can also be seen in the variant "Samil".[4]

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