on God's green earth

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See God's green earth.

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on God's green earth

  1. 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?