Synonymer & Information om | Engelska ordet HOCUS-POCUS

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• At one point the priest would say "Hoc est corpus meum", Latin for "This is My body" (a phrase that has also been suggested as the origin of the similar-sounding stereotypical magician's phrase "hocus-pocus").
• The phrase could have originated from the Roman Canon (Eucharistic Prayer) found in the Latin Mass when the priest performs the transubstantiation of the bread into the body of Christ by saying: "HOC EST ENIM CORPUS MEUM" (meaning - "This is my Body"), which could be misheard as hocus-pocus and associated with magic and changing one object into something else.
• In the 1930s his constant praise of conductor Arturo Toscanini and denigration of John Barbirolli, Toscanini's successor as music director of the New York Philharmonic, prompted protest, with Downes's "constantly repeated line of hocus-pocus" condemned as "thoroughly nauseating".
• Lovers of all things elvish, especially those who like butt-kicking swordplay, dastardly intrigues and ingenious hocus-pocus, will relish this fantasy.
• Also makes use of 'The Box,' a piece of pseudo-scientific hocus-pocus fashionable in the West Country in the 'fifties (one of the things which drove Waugh to the verge of lunacy, as narrated in Pinfold).
• Karl Krug, writing in the Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph, praised the film and called it "cold shiver melodrama at its best, and it uses no melodramatic claptrap or sliding panel hocus-pocus to achieve its cold chill ends".

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