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ORIGINAL AIRDATE: January 5th, 1987 —
Mac and Harry encounter a Die Hard situation on the way to a hockey game
MISSION: When a team of terrorists set their sites on the Phoenix Foundation building, MacGyver and Harry throw a wrench into their plans by showing up in search of missing hockey tickets.
This week’s highlights include:
Sam Hill (Etymology)
Sam Hill is an American English slang phrase, a euphemism or minced oath for “the devil” or “hell” personified (as in, “What in the Sam Hill is that?”). Etymologist Michael Quinion and others date the expression back to the late 1830s; they and others consider the expression to have been a simple bowdlerization, with, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, an unknown origin.
Check out the article on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Hill_(euphemism)
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ORIGINAL AIRDATE: January 5th, 1987 —
Mac and Harry encounter a Die Hard situation on the way to a hockey game
MISSION: When a team of terrorists set their sites on the Phoenix Foundation building, MacGyver and Harry throw a wrench into their plans by showing up in search of missing hockey tickets.
This week’s highlights include:
Sam Hill (Etymology)
Sam Hill is an American English slang phrase, a euphemism or minced oath for “the devil” or “hell” personified (as in, “What in the Sam Hill is that?”). Etymologist Michael Quinion and others date the expression back to the late 1830s; they and others consider the expression to have been a simple bowdlerization, with, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, an unknown origin.
Check out the article on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Hill_(euphemism)