God help someone
God help someone interjection: expressing pity, commiseration, or benediction (in a literally or figuratively religious way).
Interjection
- Expressing pity, commiseration, or benediction (in a literally or figuratively religious way).
- God help him, he's just trying to stay afloat.
- Well, you certainly tried your best, God help you.
- Synonyms:
- heaven help someone, God love someone
- Expressing a threat or a warning to the person who violates some rule or condition. (The implication is that something so bad will happen, such as the speaker punishing the other person or a disaster ensuing, that the other person will need God's protection from that wrath or calamity.)
- God help you
- God help them
- Synonyms:
- heaven help someone
- An expression of astonishment, dismay, bemusement, or a jocular hint of any of those.
- Near-synonyms: lawdamercy; Jesus Christ; Jesus, Mary and Joseph; Lord love a duck
- God help me
Synonyms of God help someone
Origin of God help someone
Compare Old English God helpe sumes mannes.
Questions about God help someone
- What does God help someone mean?
- God help someone means expressing pity, commiseration, or benediction (in a literally or figuratively religious way).
- What part of speech is God help someone?
- God help someone is an interjection.
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