Phrase info

God forbid

Speech parts

1. God forbid - Interjection

2. God forbid - Phrase

Meaning

God forbid

(idiomatic, subjunctive) indicating that the eventuality is both unlikely and undesirable

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide. Rebecca West

He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him! Arthur Miller

God forbid that the day should ever come when, in the American mind, the thought of man as a consumer shall submerge the old American thought of man as a creature of God, endowed with unalienable rights. Benjamin Harrison

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

God forbid you got seasick because there was no option to go back. So that really did force us to be a group. John C. Reilly

God forbid you be an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room. Ani DiFranco

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