Euphemy, in contrast, “good speech”, includes ways religious people modified these invocations against God to avoid blasphemy. Damn > darn ; God > gosh; sacré dieu (fr) > sacré bleu.

I learned not long ago that phrases like “Jeepers Creepers!” or “Jiminy Crickets!” were euphemisms for “Jesus Christ!”

I don’t know why it took me so many years to realize that.