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Lord only knows

phrase

Definitions

  1. Alternative form of God knows, in sense of something unknown to mortal men.

    • London has, heaven knows, enough homeless waifs, born the Lord only knows where, and brought up the Lord only knows how; but the London article is no more like the Parisian than chalk is like cheese.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for Lord only knows. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA