for heaven's sake
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She went on to praise Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop empire as “quite an interesting body of businesses” and added, “She’s admired. She won an Oscar, for heaven’s sake, as an actress! She’s pretty powerful.”
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2025
Although now retired, he is desperate for the case to be solved: "We need to know what happened to Lindsay. No matter how insignificant, if someone knows something, for heaven's sake come forward."
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2024
Why not just let people know the truth, for heaven’s sake?
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 22, 2024
But, she added, “people whisper, for heaven’s sake, they say, ‘Do you know what she used to do?’
From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2022
"What's wrong with the telly, for heaven's sake? We've got a lovely telly with a twelve-inch screen and now you come asking for a book! You're getting spoiled, my girl!"
From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl
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