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Phrase(s): God forbid! [and] Heaven forbid!
a phrase expressing the desire that God would forbid the situation that the speaker has just mentioned from ever happening. • Tom: It looks like taxes are going up again. Bob: God forbid! • Bob: Bill was in a car wreck. I hope he wasn’t hurt! Sue: God forbid!
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs