Lord only knows
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[edit]Phrase
[edit]- 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.