thank the gods

English

Interjection

thank the gods

1. Alternative form of thank gods.
   • 2002 June 2, Jonathan Kirsch, “The Beat Goes On”, in Los Angeles Times‎^[1], Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 December 2025:

     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.”

   • 2014 May 10, “It plays tunes, makes flowers talk and turns your home into a disco. Now that's a smart home gadget”, in Daily Mail‎^[2], London: DMG Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 May 2014:

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

   • 2018 April 17, Thessaly La Force, “When Models Became as Famous as the Artists they Inspired”, in The New York Times‎^[3], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 April 2018:

     “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.

   • 2019 February 6, Amethyst DeWilde, “Life on the breadline: poverty silenced me, but you helped me find my voice”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎^[4], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 6 February 2019:

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