call someone everything but a child of God

present singular third person calls someone everything but a child of God · participle present calling someone everything but a child of God · participle past called someone everything but a child of God · past called someone everything but a child of God

1. idiomaticslangTo call someone many abusive names.

   He would call me everything but a child of God. I was broken down in so many ways.

   2015, Shell Matlock, Test and Trials of a Tired Woman

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   That I have been called everything but a child of God; from witch to rebel to Jezebel and the list goes on God, and to make matters worse, I am a woman!

   2007, Elizabeth Derry, Lucifer Is Not Satan (book 1, page 161)

   And her cursing was not helping the situation at all. Willie didn't think it was an image a lady should have. But she'd gotten it off her chest doing so. Sam had been called everything but a child of God in the process.

   2011, Grady Abrams, Conscience of the Company, page 100