God forbid!

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God forbid! and Heaven forbid!

a phrase expressing the desire that God would forbid the situation that the speaker has just mentioned from ever happening. Tom: It looks like taxes are going up again. Bob: God forbid! Bob: Bill was in a car wreck. I hope he wasn't hurt! Sue: God forbid!

See also: god

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Could it be that the same God will send Tony Blair and his troops on such a divine mission to Tehran - God forbid Letter: Mere mortals by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)			go up the wall go well with go west go whole hog go wild go window-shopping go with go with a bang go with a swing go with gut go with the flow go with the tide go without go wrong go-getter goad goad into goad on goal goat gobble gobble down gobble up god God forbid God forbid! God help God helps them that help themselves God only knows! God rest her soul God rest soul God takes soonest those he loveth best God willing God willing and the creek don't rise God's gift God's in his heaven; all's right with the world godmother goes goes for goes to show goes without saying goggle goggle at going going great guns going my way? going on going rate Going strong going to tell going, going, gone			God Came Near God Committee God complex God Created the Integers God Dammit God Dammit God damn God damn God damn God Damn Bloody Oxford God Damn Independent God Damn It God Damn It God Damn It's Monday God Damn Mother Flipping Son of A Bitch God Damn You, Cole God daughter God daughter God Defend New Zealand God delusion God does not play dice God does not play dice God Emperor of Dune God father God father God Fearing Brothers God First God Forbid God Forbid God Forbid God forbid! God forefend God forefend God forfend God forfend God Forgive Me God Forgives You God Forgives, Brotherhood Doesn't God Forgives, I Don't God Forgives, Outlaws Don't God Free Youth God from the Machine God Give Me Strength God Given Right God Given Talent God Go With You God Hates Us All God help God help God help God help God Help All Of Us God Help Me God Help Us God Help Us All God help you God help you God help you God helps them that help themselves God helps those who help themselves God in Christianity

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