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Etymology
See God's green earth.
Meanings
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Expletive used for emphasis after an interrogative word.
What was state of the art in 1912 has mostly fallen by the wayside. […] So why, oh why, on God’s green Earth are we still measuring chile pepper heat on the Scoville scale?
2022 August 31, Tamar Haspel, “Sorry, Scoville. Peppers deserve better than an archaic heat scale.”, in The Washington Post:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| on God's green Earth | alternative | lexicographic |