God/heaven forbid
idiom
—used in speech to say that one hopes a bad thing will not happen
This is the number you should call if, God forbid, you should get into an accident.
Heaven forbid that something bad should happen.
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Harder to recommend if your parents or (God forbid) grandparents will be seated alongside you, but hey—there’s no age limit on kinkiness!
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Emma Specter, Vogue, 20 Dec. 2024
No figgy pudding or, God forbid, baked ham, but black-and-white cookies, lox and bagels, brisket, latkes, babka and kichel.
—Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2024
Wondering whether or not that was gonna cost them their job or being PC because, God forbid, your opinion is different than the average folk walking around in America.
—Ryan Morik, Fox News, 21 Nov. 2024
Not knowing where to go to replenish your stock of cream, butter or — heaven forbid — salt.
—Mackensy Lunsford, The Tennessean, 20 Nov. 2024
Overcooking, heaven forbid, is what could dry it out.
—Cathy Thomas, Orange County Register, 11 Nov. 2024
This team has, so far, failed to solve its biggest problem from last season: Curry lacks a bonafide sidekick, the kind of No. 2 that can carry a team if Curry has a bad game (those are more frequent these days) or, heaven forbid, is sidelined.
—Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 22 Oct. 2024
From learning to wear heels to flirting with boys, God forbid uttering a cuss word.
—Michael Schneider, Variety, 3 Oct. 2024
And heaven forbid if veteran head coach Sean Payton flipped his to the back.
—Candace Buckner, Washington Post, 20 June 2024
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Emma Specter, Vogue, 20 Dec. 2024
No figgy pudding or, God forbid, baked ham, but black-and-white cookies, lox and bagels, brisket, latkes, babka and kichel.
—Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2024
Wondering whether or not that was gonna cost them their job or being PC because, God forbid, your opinion is different than the average folk walking around in America.
—Ryan Morik, Fox News, 21 Nov. 2024
Not knowing where to go to replenish your stock of cream, butter or — heaven forbid — salt.
—Mackensy Lunsford, The Tennessean, 20 Nov. 2024
Overcooking, heaven forbid, is what could dry it out.
—Cathy Thomas, Orange County Register, 11 Nov. 2024
This team has, so far, failed to solve its biggest problem from last season: Curry lacks a bonafide sidekick, the kind of No. 2 that can carry a team if Curry has a bad game (those are more frequent these days) or, heaven forbid, is sidelined.
—Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 22 Oct. 2024
From learning to wear heels to flirting with boys, God forbid uttering a cuss word.
—Michael Schneider, Variety, 3 Oct. 2024
And heaven forbid if veteran head coach Sean Payton flipped his to the back.
—Candace Buckner, Washington Post, 20 June 2024
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“God/heaven forbid.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/God%2Fheaven%20forbid. Accessed 9 Jan. 2025.
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