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so help me

Idioms

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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so help me

"I never took nothing from a looter, so help me god. Donny made every piece of that up."

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2021

“I promise ‘impartial justice, so help me God,’ and I want to stick by that.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2019

Both Presidents Barack Obama and Trump used the phrase "so help me, God," a tradition historians trace back to President Abraham Lincoln in 1861.

From Fox News ● May 1, 2019

“And that is what I will always do, so help me God.”

From The Guardian ● Jan. 9, 2019

“If I hear as much as a murmur, so help me . . .” she says, the threat losing air over our heads like a pricked balloon.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline

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