for God's sake

English

An exclamation of anger, surprise, or impatience.
For God's sake, don't scare me like that!

Put some pants on, for God's sake!

Sometimes, though not always, pluralized to for God's sakes in American usage.
There are many variants which use euphemisms or dysphemisms in place of God, e.g. for fuck's sake.

Exclamation of anger, surprise, or impatience

Arabic: مِنْ أَجْلِ اللّٰهِ‎‎ (min ʾajli llāhi), لِوَجْه اللّٰه‎‎ (li-wajh allāh)
Catalan: per l'amor de Déu
Chinese:
Mandarin: 拜託 (zh), 拜托 (zh) (bàituō)
Czech: proboha (cs)
Dutch: in hemelsnaam, in godsnaam, om Gods wil
Finnish: Herran tähden
French: pour l'amour de Dieu (fr), mon Dieu (fr)
German: um Gottes willen
Greek: για όνομα του Θεού (gia ónoma tou Theoú), για το Θεό (gia to Theó), για τ' όνομα του Θεού (gia t' ónoma tou Theoú)
Hebrew: לְמַעַן הַשֵּׁם‎‎ (lemá'an hashém)
Hungarian: az isten szerelmére, az istenért
Icelandic: í guðanna bænum
Ido: pro amo a deo
Irish: in ainm Dé!

Italian: per l'amor di Dio
Japanese: 後生だから (ごしょうだから, go-shō da kara), お願いだから (おねがいだから, o-negai da kara), 冗談じゃないよ (じょうだんじゃないよ, jōdan janai yo)
Norwegian: for Guds skyld, Gudskjelov
Persian: محض رضاي خدا‎‎
Polish: na litość boską (pl), na miłość boską, rany boskie (pl)
Portuguese: pelo amor de Deus
Romanian: în numele lui Dumnezeu
Russian: ра́ди бо́га (rádi bóga)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: забога

Roman: zaboga (sh)
Spanish: por Dios, por el amor de Dios, pardiez
Swedish: för Guds skull
Ukrainian: зара́ди бо́га (zarády bóha)
Vietnamese: trời ơi (vi), ối trời ơi (vi)

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