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
Katerina-Macedonian, Russian, Bulgarian, Greek, Late Roman
NebİLe-Turkish
Alwilda-History
Evgeniyayev-GYE-nee-yah (Russian), eev-GYE-nee-yah (Russian)Bulgarian, Russian
Friduhelm-Ancient Germanic
CarlKAHRL (German, English)German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, English