so help me

Idioms  

1. 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

Video posted on Twitter by Johnson in March showed that the phrase "so help me God" was left out of an oath administered by Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., during a Judiciary subcommittee hearing.

From Fox News ● Sep. 3, 2019

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

From The Guardian ● Jan. 9, 2019

“Katherine, it works, but, so help me, you’ve got to remember—you’re not supposed to do any of the talking!”

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix