God forbid

(also heaven forbid)

› I hope this does not happen:

If there was a fire, God forbid, we’d be able to respond to the disaster.

(Definition of “God forbid” from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

"God forbid" in English

God forbid
(also Heaven forbid)

› a way of saying that you hope something does not happen:

God forbid (that) his parents should ever find out.

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Linguistics: intensifying expressions

 a heck of a sth/sb idiom

 a load of crap, nonsense, rubbish, etc. idiom

 all the way idiom

 annoy, frighten, scare, etc. the hell out of sb idiom

 anything

 as... as anything idiom

 be chilled/frozen to the marrow idiom

 be nothing less than sth idiom

 hell of a idiom

 leastways

 load

 long
 more than idiom

 price

 the shit out of sb/sth idiom

 to hell idiom

 to your heart's content idiom

 ton

 whole-ass

 with a capital A, B, etc. idiom

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(Definition of “God forbid” from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge
University Press)

Translations of “God forbid”

in Chinese (Traditional)

但願不會發生這事…


但愿不会发生这事…
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 gobsmacked

 gobstopper

 god
 God bless (you)! idiom

 God forbid idiom

 God help sb idiom

 God helps those who help themselves idiom

 God knows idiom