Expression:god forbid

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      god forbid: [To say that one hopes that something does not happen.]
      • ▶▼ Lexical annotations

        Property	Value
        word class	interjection

      • ▶▼ Definition

        Language	Text
        English	[To say that one hopes that something does not happen.]
        French	[Dire que l'on espère que quelque chose ne se produise pas.]
        Turkish	[Bir şeyin olmamasını dileme deyişi.]
        Interlingua	Expression de spero que un cosa non eveni.

      • ▶▼ Synonyms and translations

        	Expression		Annotation
        	Language	Spelling
        	Interlingua	Que Deo non lo permitte
        	Interlingua	Que Deo nos guarda de illo
        	Interlingua	Que Deo nos preserva de illo
        	Interlingua	Que Deo lo impedi
        	Interlingua	Que Deo nos libera
        	Interlingua	Que Deo non lo vole
        	Turkish	Allah saklasın
        	Turkish	Allah esirgesin
        	French	Dieu m’en garde
        	French	aux dieux ne plaise	show ▿hide ▵ Property Value example sentence Du Goujon ! c’est bien là le dîner d’un Héron ! J’ouvrirais pour si peu le bec ! aux dieux ne plaise ! — (Jean de La Fontaine, Le Héron)
        	French	à Dieu ne plaise	show ▿hide ▵ Property Value example sentence Leur donne-t-il l’être comme aux créatures ? À Dieu ne plaise! il les produit en lui-même de toute éternité, et elles lui sont égales en toutes choses. — (Bossuet, Cathéchisme de Meaux) example sentence À Dieu ne plaise, disoit-il (I. Sam. XXIV. 7.), que je commette aucune mauvaise action contre mon Seigneur l’oint de l’Éternel ! Adieu, ne plaise que je mette ma main sur lui pour lui faire du mal ! — (Jean Calvin, Institution de la religion chrétienne, Volume 3, édition Guers à Genève, 1818)
        	Turkish	Allah korusun
        	English	heaven forfend	show ▿hide ▵ Property Value example sentence Now there's an opportunity to employ a man who, heaven forfend, actually thinks about tactics and team balance. 2007, Nov 23. Scott Murray in Guardian Unlimited, Why England's failure is good news for, er, England usage This expression often used with irony, or tongue in cheek. See example quote.
        	English	heaven forbid	show ▿hide ▵ Property Value example sentence And if my parents should ever find out. Heaven forbid! example sentence "Now, by Our Lady's grace," cried the Butcher, "well do I know thy name, and many a time have I heard thy deeds both sung and spoken of. But Heaven forbid that thou shouldst take aught of me! An honest man am I, and have wronged neither man nor maid; so trouble me not, good master, as I have never troubled thee." "Nay, Heaven forbid, indeed," quoth Robin, "that I should take from such as thee, jolly fellow! Not so much as one farthing would I take from thee, for I love a fair Saxon face like thine right well—more especially when it cometh from Locksley Town, and most especially when the man that owneth it is to marry a bonny lass on Thursday next. But come, tell me for what price thou wilt sell me all of thy meat and thy horse and cart." 1883, Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Chapter V