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thank God
Idioms and Phrases
Also, thank goodness or heaven . I'm grateful, as in Thank God you arrived safely , or We didn't, thank goodness, run out of food , or Thank heaven the book arrived on time . These ejaculations originally expressed gratitude to divine providence but today tend to be used in a more casual way. [c. 1200]Example Sentences
“I’ve never really sat for an extended period of time. Thank God I’ve never had an injury. It’s been an adjustment.”
"Especially if you have family members who've been through it, you have a sort of watchfulness about your own health, which is obviously why I got tested for everything and why it was picked up, thank God, so early on," Laverne said.
He added: “Now, we’re talking about people having sex changes when they’re teenagers. When I was a teenager, I was a break dancer, I was a skateboarder, I was all these different things. And thank God I didn’t do something to myself that I would live to regret later.”
But, thank God, we managed to regain control.
“Thank God there have been no links to sea lions, otherwise I fear this wouldn’t be shocking or abnormal, if that was the case,” Warner said.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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