God love someone
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[edit]- Used to express (sincere, or jocular, or pitying) affection toward the specified person.
- Near-synonyms: God bless you, God bless
- 2001, Lou Solitske, Taxi Tales, Taxi Tales:
- It was so weak it couldn't even hold up its head. Craig filled the eyedropper and I gently pried its mouth open. [...] Craig, God love him, stayed awake all night and fed the tiny critter every hour. Within a couple of days the kitten was doing better.
- 2015 October 13, Mary Mapes, Truth: The Press, the President, and the Privilege of Power, St. Martin's Griffin, →ISBN, page 129:
- I was very leery of Sy because, God love him, he is always working. If you weren't careful, even the most casual conversation would [...]
- 2021 October 1, Kathryn Kuhlman, Jamie Buckingham, Daughter of Destiny: The Only Authorized Biography, Destiny Image Publishers, →ISBN:
- “Even them opera stars can't fill it.” “Well, I want the platform full of chairs,” she said, turning to walk out the door. She whirled back and looked straight at the custodian. “Aw, God love you! You're concerned about me, aren't you?"
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:God love someone.
See also
[edit]- bless someone's cotton socks
- bless someone's heart
- goddamn, goddamnit (antonymous force)