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translate the title
Sympathies, emanuela - I wandered around endless bookshops trying to find Lampedusa's 'Gatopardo' which my Milanese girlfriend had been raving to me about!
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According to Charles Funk, in Heavens to Betsy! & Other Curious Sayings, Harper & Row (1955), several theories have been advanced to explain “Heavens to Betsy,” but none to his satisfaction, and he deems the phrase “source unknown.”
Suggestions include: (1) a corruption of the French phrase, “auvergne betisse,” meaning “what won’t they think of next?”, and (2) some derivation from the frontiersman’s rifle or gun, which was commonly called Betsy for no apparent reason.
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old hand
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According to Charles Funk, in Heavens to Betsy! & Other Curious Sayings, Harper & Row (1955), several theories have been advanced to explain “Heavens to Betsy,” but none to his satisfaction, and he deems the phrase “source unknown.”Charles Funk blew it on this one. This is an obvious res ipsa loquitur. It refers to AnnaStrophic's divine nature.
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Carpal Tunnel
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Ah, shucks, Geoff.... then shouldn't the expression be "Heavens to Bette"?
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