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heaven knows

phrase

Definitions

  1. Alternative form of God knows.

    • Be content with the knowledge that, ere the voyage had ended, both she and I were desperately and unreasoningly in love with one another. Heaven knows that I can make the admission now without one particle of vanity.
    • In olden days, a glimpse of stockings / Was looked on as something shocking; / Now, heaven knows, / Anything goes.
    • And heaven knows I really miss him more / Than anyone I really loved before / And I know, I'm so lost without his heart

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for heaven 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