on God's green earth
See also: on God's green Earth
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]See God's green earth.
Prepositional phrase
[edit]- Expletive used for emphasis after an interrogative word.
- Synonyms: on earth; see also Thesaurus:the dickens
- 2022 August 31, Tamar Haspel, “Sorry, Scoville. Peppers deserve better than an archaic heat scale.”, in The Washington Post[1]:
- What was state of the art in 1912 has mostly fallen by the wayside. […] So why, oh why, on God’s green Earth are we still measuring chile pepper heat on the Scoville scale?