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Where did the fraze"oh for petes sake "come in?
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Where did the fraze"oh for petes sake "come in?

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Its one of the common sayings similar to "Oh, for crying out loud!". Its a classic  blasphemous curse. I believe it came in from 1924
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according to oxfords English dictionary for pete's sake came in about a century ago and it was substituted for chirst's sake
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