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ON LANGUAGE; Oy, gevalt!
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Philologos
Forward
12-31-2004
William Lasser writes from the political science department of Clemson
University to ask where the expression "Oy, gevalt!" comes from.
This is a reasonable question, because the literal meaning of the Yiddish
word gevalt (or gevald, as it is sometimes spelled) does not explain the
expression. "Oy, gevalt!" (or just plain "Gevalt!") has the sense of "Oh,
my God!" or "Good grief!" as uttered when something unfortunate has
happened -- when you have just discovered, say, that you have locked your
car keys in the car, or when your dinner partner has spilled wine all over
...
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