| for God's sake I am surprised or annoyed by this. For God's sake, Eleanor, what happened to your hair? It's time we started worrying about educating our children, for God's sake. At three-thirty in the morning, for God's sake, my dog decided to have her puppies. Usage notes: used for emphasis Related vocabulary: for crying out loud, for goodness' sake, for Pete's sake Etymology: based on the literal meaning of for God's sake (= in the name of or for God) |