heaven forbid



heaven forbid

I hope it does not happen God forbid If he ever - heaven forbid - has to go through anything like that again, at least he'll know what to do.
Usage notes: also used to suggest that others oppose the reasonable thing being mentioned: It's OK to prevent tooth decay, but heaven forbid that we try to prevent people from becoming addicted to drugs.
See also: forbid, heaven

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Aristaios-Greek Mythology
Cyrilla-English (Rare)
Juliannayuw-lee-AHN-nah (Polish), joo-lee-AHN-ə (English)Hungarian, Polish, English
Prokopis-Greek
Downey['dauni:]
Camilleka-MEE (French), kə-MEEL (English)French, English