Meaning of thank the gods | Babel Free

Definitions

Interjection. [C1]

Examples

“Kerouac’s credo held that “the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk,” and Bukowski’s was superficially similar: “Thank the gods that the first 50 years of my life were spent with the Blue Collars and the truly mad, the truly beaten.””

“There are – thank the gods – preset radio station buttons on the top of the unit.”

““They liked everything I disliked about myself,” said Farida Khelfa, who was discovered at Le Palace nightclub in Paris in 1979 by Jean-Paul Gaultier. She became his muse, as well as a longstanding one to ’80s giants Jean-Paul Goude, Thierry Mugler and Azzedine Alaïa. She said, “Jean Cocteau used to say, ‘Use your faults because they are your own.’ ” Thank the gods they did.”

“Thank the gods I’ve still got coffee and Coffee-Mate.”

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