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This version couldn't be simpler and may have some crying out "sacrebleu" but it avoids the need for the water bath.
Archive 2007-02-01 Haalo 2007
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This version couldn't be simpler and may have some crying out "sacrebleu" but it avoids the need for the water bath.
Sugar High Friday #28 Haalo 2007
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I can just hear the French spluttering sacrebleu into their lattes.
Archive 2007-06-01 2007
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I can just hear the French spluttering sacrebleu into their lattes.
At My Table 2007
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But, sacrebleu! gentlemen, I lost so much blood, I have been as pale as the bottom of a plate ever since.
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Betty smiled on him -- why, after all, _sacrebleu_ he was an honest man, without a feather on his conscience.
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol William John Locke 1896
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But, _sacrebleu_! gentlemen, I lost so much blood, I have been as pale as the bottom of a plate ever since.
The Room in the Dragon Volant Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 1843
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Mein Herr, dites-leur donc de se raillier et, sacrebleu, chargeons!
Boris Godunov: a drama in verse Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin 1818
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We tolerate some pseudonyms (pen names), but you would need to stick with the name you choose rather than changing it all the time. yes, we are Europeans sacrebleu! umm I heard that Obama apologised for the Americans speaking only english
Atlantic Review 2009
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On the other hand, from another perspective, John Williams at shadowstats. com figures things the "old-fashioned" way, which is to say, in this case, the pre-Clinton way, and he figures that the M3 money supply is - sacrebleu!
The Daily Reckoning 2009
whichbe commented on the word sacrebleu
Literally means "holy blue".
October 23, 2008
bodhi commented on the word sacrebleu
as in the Virgin Mary.
February 21, 2009
rolig commented on the word sacrebleu
It never occurred to me that "bleu" in this expression referred to the BVM. I always thought of it as relating to the sky, and therefore, to Heaven.
February 21, 2009