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strike me purple!
used for expressing great surprise AUSTRALIA, 1915- PARSON: “O, my good friend, what is the use of that language?” BULLOCKY: “Well, strike me purple, it’s the best I can do. If you reckon you can bloody well do any better take the bloody whip and have a bloody try.” — Norman Lindsay, Comic Art of Norman Lindsay, p. 101, 1904
- Strike me purple, a man’s got to eat! — J.E. MacDonnell, Sabotage!, p. 21, 1964
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