call someone everything but a child of God

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Verb

call someone everything but a child of God (third-person singular simple present calls someone everything but a child of God, present participle calling someone everything but a child of God, simple past and past participle called someone everything but a child of God)

1. (slang, idiomatic) To call someone many abusive names.
   • 2007, Elizabeth Derry, Lucifer Is Not Satan (book 1, page 161)

     That I have been called everything but a child of God; from witch to rebel to Jezebel and the list goes on God, and to make matters worse, I am a woman!

   • 2011, Grady Abrams, Conscience of the Company, page 100:

     And her cursing was not helping the situation at all. Willie didn't think it was an image a lady should have. But she'd gotten it off her chest doing so. Sam had been called everything but a child of God in the process.

   • 2015, Shell Matlock, Test and Trials of a Tired Woman:

     He would call me everything but a child of God. I was broken down in so many ways.

Related terms

• call names
• call someone every name in the book
• name-calling