for God's or goodness

for God's or goodness
expressing impatience, annoyance, urgency, or desperation.
sake

English new terms dictionary. 2014.

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  • for God's sake — phrasal used typically to express surprise, disgust, or indignation * * * for God s sake 1. An expression of urgent entreaty 2. An interjection expressing eg annoyance or disgust • • • Main Entry: ↑god * * * for… …   Useful english dictionary

  • for God's sake — I am surprised or annoyed by this. For God s sake, Eleanor, what happened to your hair? It s time we started worrying about educating our children, for God s sake. At three thirty in the morning, for God s sake, my dog decided to have her puppies …   New idioms dictionary

  • for God's sake — interjection An exclamation showing surprise, impatience, or some other emotion. For Gods sake, dont scare me like that! See Also: for goodness sake, for heavens sake, for Petes sake …   Wiktionary

  • goodness, perfect —    God s perfect goodness is his being unsurpassable in morality. Sometimes this is called omnibenevolence , but that label would seem rather to refer to the different doctrine that God is benevolent in every way to every one. Obviously… …   Christian Philosophy

  • for goodness' sake — for God’s/Christ’s/goodness’/Heaven’s/Pete’s/sake spoken phrase used for emphasizing what you are saying when you are annoyed or angry ‘for God’s sake’ and ‘for Christ’s sake’ are offensive to some people Oh, for goodness’ sake, leave me alone!… …   Useful english dictionary

  • for heaven's sake — 1. An expression of entreaty 2. An interjection expressing exasperation or disgust, etc • • • Main Entry: ↑heaven * * * for God’s/Christ’s/goodness’/Heaven’s/Pete’s/sake spoken …   Useful english dictionary

  • for Christ's sake — for God’s/Christ’s/goodness’/Heaven’s/Pete’s/sake spoken phrase used for emphasizing what you are saying when you are annoyed or angry ‘for God’s sake’ and ‘for Christ’s sake’ are offensive to some people Oh, for goodness’ sake, leave me alone!… …   Useful english dictionary

  • god — [gɔd US ga:d] n [: Old English;] 1.) God the spirit or ↑being who Christians, Jews, Muslims etc pray to, and who they believe created the universe ▪ Most Americans still believe in God . ▪ Nothing could shake his belief in God . ▪ He thought it… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • for Pete's sake — for God’s/Christ’s/goodness’/Heaven’s/Pete’s/sake spoken phrase used for emphasizing what you are saying when you are annoyed or angry ‘for God’s sake’ and ‘for Christ’s sake’ are offensive to some people Oh, for goodness’ sake, leave me alone!… …   Useful english dictionary

  • goodness — [good′nis] n. [ME goodnesse < OE godnes] 1. the state or quality of being good; specif., a) virtue; excellence b) kindness; generosity; benevolence 2. the best part, essence, or valuable element of a thing interj. used to express surprise or… …   English World dictionary

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