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the plague en · ADV
Meanings
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(dated, not-comparable) Synonym of the hell (“expletive”).
[…] and that rancid, raw-boned parson, Gillespie—how the plague did they pick him up?—one of the mutes told Bob it was he.
1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “Mr. Mervyn in His Inn”, in The House by the Church-yard. […], volume I, London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 33:Money, money, is the matter, madam. We have got no money. What the plague do you send me of your fool's errand for?
1768, Oliver Goldsmith, The Good-Natur'd Man:
Synonyms
the hell