GOD KNOWS HOW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does God knows how mean? 

• GOD KNOWS HOW (adverb)
  The adverb GOD KNOWS HOW has 1 sense:

1. by some means not understood by the speaker

  Familiarity information: GOD KNOWS HOW used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GOD KNOWS HOW (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

By some means not understood by the speaker

Context example:

God knows how he did it, but he did climbed that steep wall

 Context examples 

God knows how infantine the memory may have been, that was awakened within me by the sound of my mother's voice in the old parlour, when I set foot in the hall.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

These events have affected me, God knows how deeply; but I am not so wretched as you are.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I saw his bed rolled up in a corner; and what plates and dishes and pots he had, on a shelf; and I divined (God knows how) that though the two girls with the shock heads of hair were Captain Hopkins's children, the dirty lady was not married to Captain Hopkins.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)