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God forbid!
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!
Common Names:
| Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
| Shulamite | | - | Biblical |
| Ekwueme | | - | Western African, Igbo |
| Cayley | | KAY-lee | English (Rare) |
| Adelheid | | AH-del-hiet (German), AH-dəl-hiet (Dutch) | German, Dutch |
| Ghalib | | - | Arabic |
| ZacarÍAs | | thah-kah-REE-ahs (Spanish), sah-kah-REE-ahs (Latin American Spanish) | Spanish |