I need the phrase (or its equivalent in everyday casual speech) of “What the fuck” in as many languages as possible.
Go.
@Catvalente Hebrew (not a native speaker, got this from dictionaries but checked in a few places so I think it isn't nonsense): מה לעזאזל (ma la'azazel).
@Catvalente This is kind of delightful. Modern Hebrew often takes terms from the Bible and uses them in odd ways. Leviticus 16 says that on Yom Kippur there were to be two goats, one marked by lot for God and the other for Azazel, and the second was sent off into the desert to make expiation for the people's sins.
People have been arguing about what "Azazel" meant for millennia; it might have been a mountain. But at some point people started reading it as a demon, hence the modern curse.
@cjwatson Oh HO. Well now! This book features a mountain VERY heavily, so this is absolutely beyond perfect. Thank you so much for sharing it!