God help someone
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God help someone
Where it comes from
Compare Old English God helpe sumes mannes.
interjection
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Expressing pity, commiseration, or benediction (in a literally or figuratively religious way).
God help him, he's just trying to stay afloat.
Similar: heaven help someone, God love someone
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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
Similar: heaven help someone
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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
Similar: heaven help someone, lawdamercy, Jesus Christ, Jesus, Mary and Joseph, Lord love a duck
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