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so help you God

so help you God phrase: used when administering an oath, after which the taker is expected to reply "so help me God.".

Phrase

so help you God

  1. Used when administering an oath, after which the taker is expected to reply "so help me God."
    • Roberts: So help you God? / Obama: So help me God.2009 January 20, Barack Obama taking the oath of office⁽ᵛⁱᵈᵉᵒ⁾, John Roberts (actor)

Questions about so help you God

What does so help you God mean?
So help you God means used when administering an oath, after which the taker is expected to reply "so help me God.".
What part of speech is so help you God?
So help you God is a phrase.

Words near so help you God in the dictionary

  1. so help me cat
  2. so help me God
  3. so help me tater
  4. so help me tatur
  5. so help my tater
  6. so help you God
  7. so is life
  8. so it goes
  9. so it seems
  10. So Kon Po
  11. so long

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