god

(oh) (my) God!

An exclamation of surprise, alarm, dismay, annoyance, or exasperation. My God, look at the time! How is it nearly midnight already? God, Bill! Would it kill you to take out the trash once in a while? Oh my God! That cyclist nearly hit me!
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

(good) ˈGod

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God alˈmighty

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God in ˈheaven

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my/oh ˈGod

(spoken) used for expressing anger, surprise, etc: Good God! What on earth have you done to my car? Oh my God! I’ve broken my watch again! God almighty! You’re not going to wear that terrible old suit to the wedding, are you?(Some people find these expressions offensive.)
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
See:
  • (as) sure as God made little green apples
  • (God) bless you
  • (God) rest his/her/their soul
  • (Holy) Mother of God
  • (little) tin god
  • (my) right hand to God
  • (oh) (my) God!
  • (the) gods only know
  • (those) whom the gods love die young
  • a man of God/the cloth
  • a tin god
  • a whistling woman and a crowing hen are neither fit for God nor men
  • act of God
  • ain't got the brains God gave a squirrel
  • ain't got the sense God gave geese
  • an act of God
  • be in the lap of the gods
  • bless your pointy little head
  • but for the grace of God
  • by God
  • by guess and by God
  • by the grace of God
  • consecrate (someone or something) to God
  • consecrate to God
  • cross my heart (and point to God/hope to die)
  • cross my heart and hope to die
  • dear me
  • find God
  • fit for a king
  • fit for the gods
  • for God's sake
  • for God's, heaven's, pity's, etc. sake
  • for heaven's sake
  • for pity's sake
  • for the love of
  • for the love of God
  • for the love of Mike/Pete/God
  • for the sake of
  • gallery gods
  • get right with (someone)
  • God
  • God almighty
  • God bless
  • God forbid
  • God forbid!
  • God forfend
  • God forgive me
  • God help (one)
  • God helps them that help themselves
  • God helps those who help themselves
  • God is in the detail(s)
  • God knows
  • God knows (that) I've tried
  • God love a duck!
  • God only knows
  • God only knows!
  • God rest his/her soul
  • God rest soul
  • God save the King/Queen
  • God sends meat and the devil sends cooks
  • God takes soonest those he loveth best
  • God willing
  • God willing and the creek don’t rise
  • God willing and the creek don't rise
  • God works in mysterious ways
  • God/goodness/Heaven knows
  • God/Heaven forbid
  • God/Heaven help somebody
  • God’s acre
  • God-given right
  • God's acre
  • gods bless you
  • God's country
  • God's gift
  • God's gift to
  • God's gift to (something)
  • God's gift to man
  • God's gift to mankind
  • God's gift to something
  • God's gift to the world
  • God's gift to women
  • God's green earth
  • God's honest truth
  • God's in his heaven; all's right with the world
  • God's own gift to (something)
  • good God!
  • hand to God
  • harder than the back of God's head
  • has more money than God
  • have more money than God
  • heaven help (one)
  • honest to God
  • honest to God/goodness
  • Honest to goodness
  • honest to goodness/God/Pete
  • hug the porcelain god
  • hug the porcelain goddess
  • if God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him
  • in God's name
  • in God's/Heaven's name
  • in the lap of the gods
  • in the name of
  • in the name of God
  • kiss the porcelain god
  • lap of the gods
  • lap of the gods, in the
  • let go and let God
  • little tin god
  • lose (one's) faith (in something or someone)
  • man of God
  • man plans and God laughs
  • man proposes, and God disposes
  • man proposes, but God disposes
  • man proposes, God disposes
  • may God be my witness
  • may the gods bless you
  • mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small
  • mills of the gods grind slowly
  • mills of the gods grind slowly(, but they grind exceedingly fine)
  • mills of the gods grind slowly, the
  • my God
  • nearer the church, the farther from God
  • nectar of the gods
  • play God
  • please God
  • praise the porcelain god
  • pray to the enamel god
  • pray to the porcelain god
  • put the fear of God in
  • put the fear of God in (one)
  • put the fear of God in someone
  • put the fear of God into
  • put the fear of God into (one)
  • put the fear of God into somebody
  • put the fear of God into someone
  • put your faith in God, and keep your powder dry
  • put your faith in God, but keep your powder dry
  • put your trust in God, and keep your powder dry
  • put your trust in God, but keep your powder dry
  • rub the fear of God into (one)
  • so help me
  • so help me (God)
  • so help you (God)
  • sure as God made little green apples
  • sweet Mary(, mother of God)
  • take the goods the gods provide
  • talk to God on the big white (tele)phone
  • thank God
  • thank God for small blessings
  • thank God for small favors
  • thank God for small mercies
  • thank God it's Friday
  • thank God!
  • thanks be to God
  • the (some kind of) gods
  • the gods of (something)
  • the gods send nuts to those who have no teeth
  • the mills of God grind slowly(, but they grind exceedingly fine)
  • the nearer the church, the farther from God
  • There but for the grace of God
  • there but for the grace of God (go I)
  • there but for the grace of God go I
  • think hung the moon
  • tin god
  • to God
  • to God/goodness/Heaven
  • to goodness
  • to heaven
  • true as God
  • trust in God and keep your powder dry
  • trust in God, but keep your powder dry
  • trust in God, but tie up your camel
  • what hath God wrought
  • Where on God’s green earth?
  • where on God's green earth
  • Whom the gods love die young
  • why God invented (something)
  • why in God's name
  • with God as my witness
  • woman of God
  • work all the hours God sends
  • worship the porcelain god
  • worship the porcelain goddess
  • wrath of God, look/feel like the
  • Ye gods and little fishes!
  • Ye gods!
  • You cannot serve God and mammon
  • you can't serve (both) God and mammon
References in classic literature
[Will Atkins laughed a little at her expression of God not making her country.]
W.A.--Yes, child, our God made the whole world, and you, and me, and all things; for He is the only true God, and there is no God but Him.
"When you had betrayed your friend God began not to strike, but to warn you.
"Yes," said Monte Cristo, "and God, -- I cannot say in justice, for his justice would have slain you, -- but God, in his mercy, spared your life."
Very true, Adeimantus; but then, would any one, whether God or man, desire to make himself worse?
Then it is impossible that God should ever be willing to change; being, as is supposed, the fairest and best that is conceivable, every god remains absolutely and for ever in his own form.
But that I may reveal my heart entirely unto you, my friends: IF there were gods, how could I endure it to be no God!
29-35) So said the ready-voiced daughters of great Zeus, and they plucked and gave me a rod, a shoot of sturdy laurel, a marvellous thing, and breathed into me a divine voice to celebrate things that shall be and things there were aforetime; and they bade me sing of the race of the blessed gods that are eternally, but ever to sing of themselves both first and last.
As rigid as the sled-discipline of the gods, was the discipline maintained by White Fang amongst his fellows.
The suggestion that he consult the blacks appealed to him, and though his relations with the people of Mbonga, the chief, were the antithesis of friendly, he could at least spy upon his hated enemies and discover if they had intercourse with God.
Can thus Th' Image of God in man created once So goodly and erect, though faultie since, To such unsightly sufferings be debas't Under inhuman pains?
CREON In this land, said the god; "who seeks shall find; Who sits with folded hands or sleeps is blind."
the Word of God; and we had, blessed be God, comfortable views of the Spirit of God teaching and instructing by His word, leading us into all truth, and making us both willing and obedient to the instruction of His word.
"Hear me," he cried, "O god of the silver bow, that protectest Chryse and holy Cilla and rulest Tenedos with thy might, hear me oh thou of Sminthe.
And, as he had been accustomed, all his life, as with Mister Haggin, Skipper, and even with Bashti and the chief devil devil doctor of Somo, he attached himself to the high gods themselves, and from the gods under them received deference accordingly.