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as God intended

phrase

Definitions

  1. According to the way things are when one's own preferences, ideas, methods, values, etc.,…

    According to the way things are when one's own preferences, ideas, methods, values, etc., are applied or followed. Commonly a disguised or subconscious complaint that things are otherwise.

    • Where my cousin lives, it almost always rains on Thursdays, and then they have beautiful sunny weather on the weekend, as God intended.
    • I believe it was an English matron who declared that airplanes were an invention of the devil, that people should take trains as God intended.

  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see as, God, intended.

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for as God intended. 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