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How holy people look when they are seasick!

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Samuel Butler

Habitual teetotalers. There should be asylums for such people. But they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they came out. www.english-slang.com

holy cats

[holy cats] or [holy cow] or [holy mackerel] or [holy Moses] {interj.}, {informal} - Used to express strong feeling (as astonishment, pleasure, or anger); used in speech or when writing […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

Samuel Butler

Cleanliness is almost as bad as godliness. www.english-slang.com

Samuel Butler II

(1835-1902) A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg. www.english-slang.com

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