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WelshGirl20 | 20:10 Thu 12th Feb 2009 | History
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Just seen on The Bill someone was screaming Blue Murder where does that expression come from?
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According to "Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable" it is a pun on the French exclamation "mor-bleu" which is actually "mort Dieu" - God's Death ( or, in archaic English, 'sdeath ).
20:14 Thu 12th Feb 2009
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'Bleu' was once a French euphemism for God, hence 'sacre [with acute accent on E] bleu! ' as an oath.
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