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* '''Nut:''' an Egyptian goddess of the sky, whose milk gives rise to the Milky Way | * '''Nut:''' an Egyptian goddess of the sky, whose milk gives rise to the Milky Way | ||
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* '''my stars!''' an interjection expressing surprise, exasperation, etc. | * '''my stars!''' an interjection expressing surprise, exasperation, etc. | ||
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- O my stars and body → O my shining stars and body
- Nut: an Egyptian goddess of the sky, whose milk gives rise to the Milky Way
- my stars! an interjection expressing surprise, exasperation, etc.
- oh my stars and garters a colloquial US expression of surprise.
- Aleister Crowley (1875-1947), often regarded as the founder of modern satanism, in his "Liber al vel legis" (1909): "Every man and every woman is a star."
