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Blow Me
(an oath). You be blowed (an oath), a play on the word
Dash me, which is a euphemism for a more offensive oath.
“ `Well, if you won't stand a pint,' quoth the tall man, `I will,
that's all, and blow temperance.' ” —Kingsley: Alton Locke,
chap. ii.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Blow Me from Infoplease:
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