I have heard people saying
“Don’t do anything for namesake”.
But in the dictionary if I search for “namesake” the meaning does not even match for this sentence.
Am I misunderstood somewhere?
Help me.
Thanks in advance…
I know of these:
For God’s sake.
For Christ’s sake.
For Fu**'s sake.
But yours doesn’t ring a bell. Can you post a recording of somebody saying this?
also:
for heaven’s sake
for goodness sake
for Pete’s sake
When you are doing something just because it is a rule and you do that without any interest, we use the word “namesake”. Thats why I told " Don’t do anything for namesake".Is this right or wrong, because the dictionary doesn’t tell that meaning?
[size=150]Namesake (sometimes “name’s sake”) is a term used to characterize a person, place, thing, quality, action, state, or idea that is called after, or named out of regard to, another. For example, if a target person, place, or thing is named after a source person, place, or thing, then the name target is said to be the namesake of the name source. First recorded in 1646 to mean “person named for the sake of someone”, the reference to something being a namesake of something else imports a connection between the two that extends beyond sharing similarly looking names to one of a shared name, usually called the same name. Namesake may be distinguished from eponym in that a namesake usually includes a “sake” connection to the source name whereas an eponym name merely is derived from a source name without an additional sake connection[/size]
If something is said to be ‘just for name’s sake’ it has no real meaning or worth. It relies on the name - the reputation.
The exception to the above is when the reference is to do something ‘for his name’s sake’ - references which are sprinkled through the Bible with regard to doing something in God’s name or in Jesus’s name. There, ‘Do this in his name’s sake’ means do it as a proclamation or testament to God /Jesus.
A ‘namesake’ is a person or thing that has the same name as another.
The term ‘don’t do anything for name’s sake’ is not a standard expression.