Buy
Buy verb - To get possession of (something) by giving money in exchange for.
Forbid
Forbid verb - To order not to do or use or to be done or used.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- The same column detailed his attempts to buy a pet fish for Sophie which he said had to "look like other fish in case - God forbid - we have to Melvinize it".
Source: Released to Elsewhere - Randal: ...we like to make ourselves seem so much more important than the people that come in here to buy a paper, or, God forbid... cigarettes.
Source: Jerkass Has a Point - Us, we like to make ourselves seem so much more important than the people that come in here to buy a paper, or, god forbid, cigarettes.
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