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so help me Bob

  1. Euphemistic form of so help me God
    • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 70:
      "So I would have, but it was pretty dark and so help me Bob, if I didn't get off the road somewhere."