seealsoSAKE
IDIOMS
for Christ's, God's, goodness', heaven's, pity's, etc. sake used to emphasize that it is important to do sth or when you are annoyed about sth:
Do be careful, for goodness' sake. * Oh, for heaven's sake! * For pity's sake, help me!
HELPNOTE Some people find the use of Christ, God or heaven here offensive.
for sth's own sake because of the interest or value sth has, not because of the advantages it may bring:
I believe in education for its own sake. * art for art's sake
for the sake of sb/sth
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for sake is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is sake a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, sake is tagged as noun.
Does sake appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — sake appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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