for crying out loud!
informalDefinition
› said when you are annoyed, and to emphasize what you are saying: Oh, for crying out loud, why won't you listen to me!Expressions of anger
(Definition of for crying out loud! from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- (really) take the biscuit idiom
- bally adjective, adverb
- beg verb
- blast exclamation
- blasted adjective (ANGRY)
- bleeding adjective
- blessed adjective
- bloody adjective, adverb (ANGER)
- blooming adjective, adverb
- dickens noun
- doggone exclamation, adjective
- drat (it) exclamation
- flaming adjective
- flip exclamation
- flipping adjective, adverb
- frigging adjective, adverb
- need verb (MUST DO)
- put/stick that in your pipe and smoke it! idiom
- sodding adjective
- that does it! idiom
Topic:
Expressions of anger
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