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get8p
Jun 15, 2012, 04:54 PM
There's a movie called Two Rode Together, western, 1961.

There's a dialog between two, marshal and a cowboy, they're talking about how much money each of them makes, and when cowboy says he makes a lot, much more money, which was unbeknown to marshal, he says...

- Don't tell me you didn't know.
- No, I didn't know about that.
- Well, I get 10 percent of everything in Tascosa.
- Holy crimanetta.

So I've been lurking a meaning of this word crimanetta, founding nothing. I understand he meant something close to "holy cow", but I'd like to know an exact meaning of this word.

Here's a YouTube link (http://youtu.be/4r3uu4kdROw?t=3m13s) to a scene in a film where he says it.
Thank you.

Wondergirl
Jun 15, 2012, 05:04 PM
It's like "Holy Criminy" or "Holy Cow" -- just an expression, a euphemism someone invented to use instead of a swear word.

http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-cri1.htm

get8p
Jun 15, 2012, 05:08 PM
Thanks Wondergirl! You saved my day =)

Wondergirl
Jun 15, 2012, 05:14 PM
Thanks Wondergirl! You saved my day =)
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get8p
Jun 16, 2012, 05:47 AM
Will sure do. I tried several q&a services, and this one seems to be the best.
Thanks again.