as God intended

phrase

According to the way things are when one's own preferences, ideas, methods, values, etc., are applied or followed. Commonly a disguised or subconscious complaint that things are otherwise.

“Where my cousin lives, it almost always rains on Thursdays, and then they have beautiful sunny weather on the weekend, as God intended.”

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Meanings

phrase

alternative the way God intended · alternative like God intended

  1. excessivehumoroussarcasticusuallyAccording to the way things are when one's own preferences, ideas, methods, values, etc., are applied or followed. Commonly a disguised or subconscious complaint that things are otherwise.

    Where my cousin lives, it almost always rains on Thursdays, and then they have beautiful sunny weather on the weekend, as God intended.

    1 more example

    I believe it was an English matron who declared that airplanes were an invention of the devil, that people should take trains as God intended.

    2010 February 6, Paul Krugman, “People Should Travel In Trains As God Intended”, in The New York Times (The Conscience of a Liberal)
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see as, God, intended.

Translations

Spanish como Dios manda
  • como Dios mandaTranslations
Cite this entry
APA

as God intended. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/as%20God%20intended

MLA

“as God intended.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/as%20God%20intended. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “as God intended,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/as%20God%20intended.

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