God forbid!

God forbid

A phrase invoking God's protection to keep something from happening. Sometimes used sarcastically or hyperbolically. God forbid I get another ticket on my parents' car. I'll be grounded for a month! God forbid that an R-rated film should have anything offensive in it!
See also: forbid, god
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

God forbid!

 and Heaven forbid!
a phrase expressing the desire that God would forbid the situation that the speaker has just mentioned from ever happening. Tom: It looks like taxes are going up again. Bob: God forbid! Bob: Bill was in a car wreck. I hope he wasn't hurt! Sue: God forbid!
See also: god
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • forbid
  • as far as the eye can see
  • as far as the eye can/could see
  • be a fate worse than death
  • and his mother
  • chain (someone or something) to (something)
  • chain to
References in classic literature
"God forbid! Your account of it certainly does not suggest comfort.
Present At A Hanging And Other Ghost Stories
If (which God forbid!) good Mistress Germaine or yourself were to fall down dead in another moment, I, doctor as I am, could no more explain what first principle of life and movement had been suddenly extinguished in you than the dog there sleeping on the hearth-rug.
The Two Destinies
It is certainly not your eminence's word I place in doubt, God forbid!"
Ten Years Later
"Theresa May hasn't got to strip off to be a successful women - God forbid!"TV's Piers Morgan, criticising celebrities who strip off allegedly in the cause of feminism.
QUOTES OF THE DAY
Theresa May hasn't got to strip off to be a successful women - God forbid!" - TV's Piers Morgan, criticising celebrities who strip off allegedly in the cause of feminism.
OF THE DAY QUOTES
"God forbid! Here are people who believe in God; I think this information is not correct," the Speaker said.
Gambling banning law must be implemented -- Speaker Jeenbekov
Could it be that the same God will send Tony Blair and his troops on such a divine mission to Tehran - God forbid!
Letter: Mere mortals
It could he a major turning point in the city's public architecture, making Istanbul a model for the rest of us ...' God forbid!
Letters
When I look at the dancers on your pages, I immediately think, "Are they doing a cover story on starving war orphans in Somalia?" I think that dancers who have healthy bodies or (God forbid!) women with hips, would be a way to open your magazine up to a world of normal-looking dancers and a way to make young dancers feel better about themselves.
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