прости господи

I

• ПРОСТИ ГОСПОДИ obsoles, coll

[Invar; sent adv (parenth); fixed WO]

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⇒ used by the speaker to express his awareness that something he has just said or is about to say is phrased too sharply:

- Lord (God) forgive me.

     ♦ "Чернышевского не читал, а так, если подумать... Прескучная, прости Господи, фигура!" (Набоков 1). Tve never read Chemyshevski, but when I come to think of it. ... A most boring, Lord forgive me, figure!" (1a).

II

• ПРОСТИ ГОСПОДИ euph, highly coll

[used as NP; Invar; fixed WO]

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⇒ a prostitute:

- tart;

- hooker;

- strumpet;

- trollop;

- streetwalker;

- harlot.