for the love of Mike

Interjection

1. (euphemistic) For the love of God.
   • "For the love of Mike!" cried that young lady, "where have you been all this time, and what's happened to you? You look as though you'd lost your last friend."1919 (date written), Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Efficiency Expert: Part III. Chapter XV. Little Eva.”, in Argosy All-Story Weekly, volume CXXXVII, number 6, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Company...
   • "[…] But the police have an idea that I committed—" / "What—for the love of Mike?" / "Murder!" / "Good heavens!" / "And that isn't all, Bob. They've a couple of bakers' dozens of witnesses, all cocked and primed to swear to it!"1921 April 16, Achmed Abdullah, “Framed at the Benefactor’s Club”, in Detective Story Magazine; republished in Fear and Other Stories from the Pulps, [Holicong, Pa.?]: Wildside Press, 2005, →ISBN...

   Synonyms:

   FFS, for Christ's sake, for cripes' sake, for crying in the beer, for crying out loud, for fucking out loud, for fuck's sake, for God's sake, for goodness' sake, for heaven's sake