for the love of Mike

interjection

For the love of God.

Similar
FFSfor Christ's sakefor cripes' sakefor crying in the beerfor crying out loudfor fucking out loudfor fuck's sakefor God's sake
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Meanings

interjection
  1. euphemisticFor the love of God.

    "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
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    "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

    "[…] 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

    "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

    Synonyms: FFS, for Christ's sake, for cripes' sake, for crying in the beer, for crying out loud, for fucking out loud, for fuck's sake, for God's sake

Synonyms & antonyms

interjectionFor the love of God.

Similar
FFSfor Christ's sakefor cripes' sakefor crying in the beerfor crying out loudfor fucking out loudfor fuck's sakefor God's sakefor goodness' sakefor heaven's sakefor mercy's sakefor Pete's sakefor pity's sakefor the love of all that is holyfor the love of Betsyfor the love of Godfor the love of Mosesfor the love of fuckfor the love of Pete
Also see
for christ's sakefor crying out loudfor fuck's sakefor god's sakefor heaven's sakefor mercy's sakefor pete's sakefor pity's sakefor the love of betsyfor the love of godfor the love of pete
Cite this entry
APA

for the love of Mike. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/for%20the%20love%20of%20Mike

MLA

“for the love of Mike.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/for%20the%20love%20of%20Mike. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “for the love of Mike,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/for%20the%20love%20of%20Mike.

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