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In reply to:Means run like the devil (was after you) I believe. From the era when you didn't say things like damn and devil in polite company, if I remember rightly.
Thanks for the parenthetical explanation, TEd of the strange pronunciation. Makes some sense out of it.
Speaking of euphemisms for swear words, my very prim and proper (<insert link to redundant pairs thread here>) mother-in-law says "belly" when she means "bloody".
Makes me belly laugh.
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