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English
Interjection
for God's sake
- An exclamation of anger, surprise, or impatience.
- For God's sake, don't scare me like that!
- Put some pants on, for God's sake!
Usage notes
- Sometimes, though not always, made possessive to for God's sakes in American usage.
- There are many variants which use euphemisms or dysphemisms in place of God, e.g. for fuck's sake.
Synonyms
Translations
Exclamation of anger, surprise, or impatience
- Arabic: مِنْ أَجْلِ اللّٰهِ (min ʔajli llāhi), لِوَجْه اللّٰه (li-wajh allāh)
- Catalan: per l'amor de Déu
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 拜託／拜托 (zh) (bàituō), 拜托 (zh) (bàituō)
- Czech: proboha (cs)
- Dutch: in hemelsnaam, in godsnaam, om Gods wil
- Finnish: Herran tähden
- French: pour l’amour de Dieu (fr), mon Dieu (fr)
- German: um Gottes willen
- 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)
- Hebrew: לְמַעַן הַשֵּׁם (lemá'an hashém)
- Hungarian: az isten szerelmére, az istenért
- Icelandic: í guðanna bænum
- Ido: pro amo a deo
- Irish: in ainm Dé!
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- 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 janai yo)
- Norwegian: for Guds skyld, Gudskjelov
- Persian: محض رضای خدا
- Polish: na litość boską (pl), na miłość boską, rany boskie (pl)
- Portuguese: pelo amor de Deus
- Romanian: în numele lui Dumnezeu
- Russian: ра́ди бо́га (rádi bóga)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: забога
- Roman: zaboga (sh)
- Spanish: por Dios, por el amor de Dios, pardiez
- Swedish: för Guds skull
- Ukrainian: зара́ди бо́га (zarády bóha)
- Vietnamese: trời ơi (vi), ối trời ơi (vi)
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