where (in) (the) Sam Hill
where (in) (the) Sam Hill
An emphatic way of forming any statement or question beginning with "where," typically when expressing frustration, anger, irritation, incredulousness, etc. ("Sam Hill" is a colloquial minced oath for "hell.") Just where in Sam Hill do you think you're going? You've got school in the morning, young lady! We're not going anywhere until I figure out where in the Sam Hill I left my wallet. I don't know where the Sam Hill you got so much money, but there's no way you earned all that just from flipping burgers on the weekends.
See also: hill, SAM
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
Where in Sam Hill?
verbSee Where in the Sam Hill?
See also: SAM
Where in (the) Sam Hill?
interrog. Where? (An intensive form of where. Sam Hill is hell.) Where in Sam Hill did I put my hat?
See also: SAM
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
- Where in Sam Hill?
- Where in the world...?
- Where in the world?
- where on earth
- Where on earth?
- who (in) (the) hell
- who (in) (the) Sam Hill
- Who in the hell?
- who the deuce
- Who the deuce?