“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose,
By any other name would smell as sweet.”
Shakespeare: Romeo and juliet, ii. 2.
To take God’s name in vain. To use it profanely, thoughtlessly, or irreverently.
“Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.”—Exod. xx. 7.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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