for God's sake

for God's sake

1. An exclamation of anger, surprise, or impatience.

   For God's sake, don't scare me like that!

   Put some pants on, for God's sake!

• Sometimes, though not always, made possessive to for God's sakes in American usage.
• There are many variants which use euphemisms or dysphemisms in place of God, e.g. for fuck's sake.

• for Christ's sake
• for crying out loud
• for fuck's sake
• for Goddess's sake
• for goodness' sake
• for heaven's sake
• for Pete's sake
• for pity's sake