G
Idioms beginning with "G"
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[goal line stand] {n.}
A strong defensive effort right in front of the goal line.
A goal line stand by the home team held the visitors on the two-yard line.
[God]
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[IN THE LAP OF THE GODS] also [ON THE KNEES OF THE GODS],
[MY GOD] or [MY GOODNESS],
[WOULD THAT] or [WOULD GOD].
[God forbid] {interj.}
May God prevent (something from happening); I hope that will not happen or is not true.
Someone told the worried mother that her son might have drowned. She said, "God forbid!"
* /God forbid that the dam break and flood the […]
[God knows] or [goodness knows] or [heaven knows] {informal}
1. Maybe God knows but I don't know and no one else knows. — Often used with "only".
Do you know where Susan is? God only knows!
2. Surely; certainly.
* /Goodness knows, the poor man […]
[God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb] {literary}
A person who is already helpless will not have more trouble; you will not have more trouble than you can bear.
* /After Mr. Smith lost his job, the Smith's house caught fire, but the fire was put out […]
[going for one] {adj. phr.}
Working to help; in one's favor.
The young woman surely will get the job; she has everything going for her.