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for God 's sake
An exclamation of anger , surprise , or impatience .
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:for the love of God
For God's sake , don't scare me like that!
Put some pants on, for God's sake !
2023 January 30, Zolan Kanno-Youngs , Mark Walker, quoting Joe Biden , “Biden Visits Decrepit Rail Tunnel to Promote $1 Trillion Infrastructure Law”, in The New York Times [1] , →ISSN , →OCLC , archived from the original on 2023-01-30 , Politics[2] :“The structure is deteriorating. The roof was leaking. The floor is sinking,” Mr. Biden said in a speech in front of the tunnel, the oldest in the Northeast, where the crowd included dozens of union workers. “This is the United States of America, for God’s sake . We know better than that.”
Indicating a heartfelt or urgent request .
Synonym: please
exclamation of anger, surprise, or impatience
Afrikaans: please add this translation if you can
Arabic: مِنْ أَجْلِ اللّٰهِ ( min ʔajli llāhi ) , لِوَجْه اللّٰه ( li-wajh allāh )
Armenian: ի սեր աստծո (hy) ( i ser astco )
Azerbaijani: Allah xatirinə
Bashkir: please add this translation if you can
Belarusian: дзе́ля бо́га ( dzjélja bóha ) , бо́гам прашу́ ( bóham prašú )
Bulgarian: за бо́га ( za bóga ) , заради́ бо́га ( zaradí bóga )
Catalan: per l'amor de Déu
Chinese:
Mandarin: 拜託 / 拜托 (zh) ( bàituō )
Czech: proboha (cs)
Danish: please add this translation if you can
Dutch: in hemelsnaam , in godsnaam , om Gods wil
Faroese: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: Herran tähden
French: pour l’amour de Dieu (fr) , mon Dieu (fr)
Galician: por Deus
German: um Gottes willen , Grundgütiger (de) ( exalted ) , Himmel nochmal , verflixt nochmal , Menschenskind
Greek: για όνομα του Θεού ( gia ónoma tou Theoú ) , για το Θεό ( gia to Theó ) , για τ' όνομα του Θεού ( gia t' ónoma tou Theoú )
Ancient Greek: πρὸς θεῶν ( pròs theôn ) , τοὺς θεούς σοι ( toùs theoús soi )
Hebrew: לְמַעַן הַשֵּׁם (he) ( lemá'an hashém )
Hungarian: az isten szerelmére (hu) , az istenért
Icelandic: í guðanna bænum
Ido: pro amo a deo
Irish: in ainm Dé!
Italian: per l'amor di Dio
Japanese: 後生だから ( ごしょうだから, go-shō da kara ) , お願いだから ( おねがいだから, o-negai da kara ) , 冗談じゃないよ ( じょうだんじゃないよ, jōdan ja nai yo )
Korean: 제발 (ko) ( jebal ) , 제발 바라건대 ( jebal barageondae )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: بۆ خاتری خوا ( bo xatrî xwa )
Laz: ალლაჲისე ( allayise )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: for Guds skyld , Gudskjelov
Persian: محض رضای خدا ( mahz-e rezâ-ye xodâ )
Polish: na litość boską (pl) , na miłość boską (pl) , rany boskie (pl) , na Boga (pl)
Portuguese: pelo amor de Deus (pt) , por amor da Santa
Romanian: în numele lui Dumnezeu
Russian: го́споди бо́же ( góspodi bóže )
Scottish Gaelic: an ainm an Àigh
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: за̏бога
Roman: zȁboga (sh)
Slovak: preboha
Spanish: por Dios , por el amor de Dios (es) , pardiez
Swedish: för Guds skull
Tamil: தயவு செய்து (ta) ( tayavu ceytu )
Turkish: Allahını seversen , Allah aşkına , allahise ( dialectal )
Ukrainian: зара́ди бо́га ( zarády bóha ) , ра́ди бо́га (uk) ( rády bóha )
Urdu: خدارہ ( xudāra ) , خدا کے واسطے ( xudā ke vāste ) , اللہ کے واسطے ( allāh ke vāste ) , خدا کے لئے ( xudā ke liye )
Vietnamese: trời ơi (vi) , ối trời ơi (vi)
Yiddish: למען־השם ( leman-hashem ) , לשם־שמים ( lesheym-shomayem )
indicating a heartfelt or urgent request