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for the love of Mike en · INTJ

(euphemistic) For the love of God.
- "For the love of Mike! What did you pay?" "Ten thousand francs apiece." "But, Irma, that's preposterous! He never got half that for a painting in all his life." 1942, Upton Sinclair, Dragon's Teeth:
- "[…] But the police have an idea that I committed—" / "What—for the love of Mike?" / "Murder!" / "Good heavens!" / "And that isn't all, Bob. They've a couple of bakers' dozens of witnesses, all cocked and primed to swear to it!" 1921 April 16, Achmed Abdullah, “Framed at the Benefactor’s Club”, in Detective Story Magazine; republished in Fear and Other Stories from the Pulps, [Holicong, Pa.?]: Wildside Press, 2005, →ISBN, chapter IV (In His Pocket), page 104:
- "Ted, you listen to Mr. Thompson!" said Howard Littlefield. "Oh, for the love o' Mike, I am listening!" Ted shouted. 1922, Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC:
- "For the love of Mike!" cried that young lady, "where have you been all this time, and what's happened to you? You look as though you'd lost your last friend." 1919 (date written), Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Efficiency Expert: Part III. Chapter XV. Little Eva.”, in Argosy All-Story Weekly, volume CXXXVII, number 6, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Company, published October 1921, →OCLC, page 809, column 1: