sucre bleu

interjection

Expressing anger or surprise.

OriginFrench sacrebleu →
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Meanings

interjection
  1. colloquialhumorousExpressing anger or surprise.

    2003, Bob Weisgerber, Golf Today Magazine http://www.golftodaymagazine.com/pdf/2003/Nov03%20web.pdf Sucre Bleu! my coffee’s got no sweetener dammit!

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    2/17/1977, Robert J. Tobin, Time Magazine-Letters to the Editor https://archive.today/20130630104459/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,914748-3,00.html Sucre bleu! Louis Bechereau will be sure to wreak his Gallic spleen in that Great Aerodrome in the Sky…

    2006, Unknown, University of Minnesota Morris-The Weight https://web.archive.org/web/20070613165602/http://www.mrs.umn.edu/register/archives/v18/URegV18AFE.pdf Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin raced down to the door and gasped at what stood before him. "Sucre bleu!" he screamed

Origin

  1. Frenchsacrebleu“good heavens”
  2. Englishsucre bleu

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

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