for the love of God

American  

[fawr thuh luhv uhv god] / ˌfɔr ðə ˈlʌv əv ˈgɒd /

idiom

Informal.

1. (used when expressing anger, impatience, or exasperation, or when making an earnest call for action).

   For the love of God, stop beating around the bush and get to the point!

   If you are registered to vote, then please, for the love of God, do so.

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Example Sentences

As the series wore on, her pain, if not its actual source, became more and more evident and my private commentary solidified into: “For the love of God, put down your phone.”

From Los Angeles Times

I’m sure every general counsel with the network or the NFL is saying, “No, for the love of God, don’t do it.”

From Los Angeles Times

Sara Sidner reveals stage 3 breast cancer diagnosis and calls on her ‘sisters Black, white and brown’ to go get their mammograms, ‘for the love of God.’

From Los Angeles Times

The award-winning news anchor then called on her “sisters Black, white and brown” to please, “for the love of God,” get their mammograms every single year and to perform self-exams so they can hopefully catch it before she did.

From Los Angeles Times

Sam Betsko figured out fast that being a resident assistant in a college dorm would demand more than helping locked-out students and pleading with sophomores to, for the love of God, turn down the music.

From New York Times