God help someone
English
Etymology
Compare Old English God helpe sumes mannes.
Interjection
God help someone
- Expressing extreme pity or commiseration.
- 1848, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Mary Barton:
- God help yon poor pale girl, who droops forlorn, / And meekly her affliction doth endure; / God help her, outcast lamb; she trembling stands, / All wan her lips, and frozen red her hands; […]
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- Expressing a threat to the person who violates some rule or condition.
- 2011, Simon Perry, All Who Came Before (page 60)
- “God help anyone who touches wine destined for Amram's lips!” Eliazar laughed as he lifted the skins on the cart to reach for a piece of bread to chew as he walked.
- 2011, Simon Perry, All Who Came Before (page 60)