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Lord_only_knows

Lord only knows

English

Phrase

Lord only knows

  1. Alternative form of God knows, in sense of something unknown to mortal men.
    1882, David Ross Locke, Nasby in Exile, xix. 287
    London has, heaven knows, enough homeless waifs, born the Lord only knows where, and brought up the Lord only knows how; but the London article is no more like the Parisian than chalk is like cheese.