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Idioms and Phrases

Also, so help me God . I swear that what I am saying is true, as in So help me, I haven't enough cash to pay for the tickets, or I wasn't there, so help me God . This idiom became a formula for swearing a formal oath and is still so used in courts of law for swearing in a witness ( I swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help me God ). It was first recorded in 1508 as “So help me, our Lord.”
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But since they abolished most of the hereditary peerage back in 1999, they shortened the process this time, with the Archbishop of Canterbury pledging to be "faithful and true" and Prince William kneeling before his father and saying, "I pledge my loyalty to you and faith and truth I will bear unto you, as your liege man of life and limb. So help me God."

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The third section includes court filings from cases filed by the Trump campaign challenging results in Arizona, as well as excerpts from former Vice President Mike Pence’s autobiography “So Help Me God.”

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But so help me, the minute one of those hairy little heathens helps itself to the fruit of my orange tree, the phrase “dogs of war” is going to take on a whole new meaning on my backyard battlefield.

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In its preamble, Project 2025’s director Paul Dans calls for plans to “move out upon the President’s utterance of the words ‘so help me God’ on Inauguration Day.”

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“CSI: Vegas,” “NCIS,” “NCIS: Hawai’i,” “Blue Bloods,” “The Equalizer,” the comic legal drama “So Help Me Todd” and “Fire Country,” which has a criminal-justice element.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

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