Etymology

sucre bleu

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French sacrebleu
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The story

  1. French · derived fromsacrebleu“good heavens”
  2. English todaysucre bleu

Literally "blue sugar"; a jocular corruption of the French sacrebleu (“good heavens”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.