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PRONUNCIATION OF GOD FORBID!

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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE GOD FORBID!

GOC
GOC-in-C
god
god game
God man
God particle
god-awful
God-botherer
God-fearing
God´s acre
Godard
Godavari
Godcast
godchild
godchildren
goddam
goddammit
goddamn
goddamned
Goddard

WORDS THAT END LIKE GOD FORBID!

all aboard!
drop dead!
get knotted!
get rooted!
get stuffed!
my word!
upon my word!

Synonyms and antonyms of God forbid! in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «God forbid!» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF GOD FORBID!

Find out the translation of God forbid! to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of God forbid! from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «God forbid!» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

上帝保佑!
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Dios no lo quiera !
570 millions of speakers

English

God forbid!
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

भगवान न करे !
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

لا سمح الله !
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Не дай Бог !
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Deus me livre !
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ঈশ্বরের নিষেধ!
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

A Dieu ne plaise !
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tuhan melarang!
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Gott bewahre !
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

神が禁じる!
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

하나님은 금지 !
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Gusti ngalang-alangi!
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

Thiên Chúa cấm !
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கடவுளே!
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

देव करो आणि असा न होवो!
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Allah korusun!
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Dio non voglia !
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Nie daj Boże !
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Не дай Бог !
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Doamne ferește !
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Θεός φυλάξοι !
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

God verbied !
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Gud förbjude !
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Gud forby!
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of God forbid!

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «GOD FORBID!»

The term «God forbid!» is quite widely used and occupies the 49.965 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «GOD FORBID!» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about God forbid!

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GOD FORBID!»

Discover the use of God forbid! in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to God forbid! and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
God Forbid : Religion and Sex in American Public Life: ...
As a result, religion in America is misrepresented as anxiously and obsessively concerned with sex, and as uniformly supporting the conservative agenda of "family values." This volume corrects that distortion in American public discourse.
Boston Kathleen M. Sands Associate Professor of Religious Studies University of Massachusetts, 2000
2
Why Hebrew Goes from Right to Left: 201 Things You Never ...
"God Forbid" Both the Hebrew language and Yiddish have the expression "God forbid" in their vocabulary. In Hebrew, the phrase is chas v'shalom ("pity and peace"), and in Yiddish, nitdawgeh- dacht, which literally means "it shouldn't happen ...
Ronald H. Isaacs, 2008
3
The Complete Concordance to Shakespeare: Being a Verbal ...
Hter,Qfr'eTiirr, U. you may ля well forbid the — Iv. the gods forbid elsel Ali'i »>./. ¡h . let it bo forbid, sir! so I should be . . — iv. I expresaly am forbid to touch it. Taming ofSh. iv. marry, sir. God forbid l — lv. no si r. God forbid ; hut ashamed — v. be ...
Mary Cowden Clarke, 1886
4
Islam in Everyday Arabic Speech
(C). ld (y)kun nsahaq b-siyydra la samah-afla, 'I'm afraid he's been run over by a car, God forbid!' (BM); mathalan ld samah-alldh wdhad mit- wa/jft, 'for instance, one is dead, God forbid!' (Galilee). A — (anxiously:) iftakarna-l-'adu wa-ld ...
Moshe Piamenta, 1979
5
God Forbid
Written by a 16 year old author, this story examines fundamental religion and freewill.
Captain Lilybob, 2007
6
The Complete Concordance to Shakspeare: Being a Verbal Index ...
2 marry. God forbid! the boy \t'tlS...-'ilrr.qf Venice, ii. 2 you may as well forbid the . . . . . . . . . . — iv. I the gods forbid else! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411': We“. iii. 5 let it be forbid. r-ir! so I should be — iv. 3 I expressly am forbid to touch it. 'l'mning ofSh. iv.
‎1845
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Verbs of Implicit Negation and Their Complements in the ...
of God forbid, which in origin corresponds to Latin absit, is the absence of expletive negation in its subordinate clauses. This is in clear contrast with the other uses of forbid, which in usual cases dominated subordinate clauses with expletive ...
Yoko Iyeiri, 2010
8
Secrets of a Jewish Mother: Real Advice, Real Family, Real Love
LISA: God forbid. AUNT COOKY: Now bite your tongue three times. Three times. Did you bite it? LISA: Yes. AUNT COOKY: Okay, now say “God forbid” again. The scary thing is that these superstitions are catching. We find ourselves passing ...
Jill Zarin, Lisa Wexler, Gloria Kamen, 2011
9
The Englishman's Greek Concordance of the New Testament: ...
God forbid, (lit. may it not be) 29. we had been as Sodoma, 10:20. I was made manifest unto them 11: I.God cast away his people? God forbid, (lit. may, C. ) 5. there is a remnant according 6. otherwise grace is no more grace. 9. Let their table ...
George V. Wigram, 1870
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The Princeton Review
St. Paul," says Canon Farrar, on the text i Peter 4 : 6, " flings from him again and again, with a ' God forbid,' the conclusions of an apparently irresistible logic." This information is startling. If we look at the passages where the repelling ...
‎1878

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