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for heaven's sake

  1. see for the sake of, def. 3.



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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

"Cacio e pepe should not be made with cream; cream is for desserts. For heaven's sake. Whoever uses cream does not know what cooking means."

From BBC

She lives in New York, for heaven’s sake, the city that invented anger management issues.

But Trump owns hotels, for heaven’s sake.

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

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