A early exclamation used in a similar context to "well shit" or "oh shit".
Land sake child, you scared me!
Also see land sakes alive for similar expressions
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I can't believe this has not been defined here yet. Alternative to for fucks sake
Joe: i bought 1000 dollars worth of tap water.
Rick: for heaven's sake
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These other definitions are good; this seems to be primarily Scottish/British Isles; See Franco Begbie for true enlightenment
Rent boy, ya doss cunt; gies us a zigarette, fir FUCK's saik!!!
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Expletive, often used in place of the cleaner "for Pete's sake" or whatever. British/Irish in origin.
Josh said he would meet me at 3:00 but then he dissed me. For fuck's sake!
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An expression usually used by mothers who have to watch their P&Q's around the kids. The art of sanitizing phrases that come from drunken sailors coming home from leave.
I have to run around all day and deal with so much stuff at the house "for crap sake".
I wish you would smile more what do I have to do make that happen "for crap sake".
Would you just kiss me "for crap sake" I just drank 3 apple martini's.
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How the Scottish and Irish spell and pronounce "fuck's sake", or "for fuck's sake".
We don't say that, we just say "fuck sake". Why that would be is anyone's guess, probably just another of our numerous attempts to butcher the English language, which is a fine practice. The likelihood of an entity called "sake" that we are opposed to grows smaller over the years, as far as I can see.
"Johnny it's 8am, you slept in"
"Fuck sake"
For the sake of all the fucks.
Variant: For fuck's sake. (For the sake of a specific fuck).
For fucks' sake Hancock, what do you think they're doing with the PPE? Dressing up and playing at Start Wars?!