"the dear knows" meaning in All languages combined

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  "etymology_text": "Unclear. Bliss and Dolan suggest a conflation of dear, as in \"oh dear\" or \"the Dear Lord\", and deer, by analogy with the conflation in Irish of Fiadha \"God\" and fiadh \"deer\".",
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          "ref": "1806 'Caleb Thistle' \"How are the mighty fallen!\" in The Evening Fire-side; or Literary Miscellany (Philadelphia; 10 May 1806) Vol.II No.19 p.147",
          "text": "O thou, whom poets call Melpomene,\nWho hast inspir'd, the dear knows how many\nIn ancient times to sing O Dear O's\nOn hapless fates of unknown heroes,"
        },
        {
          "ref": "19th century Anonymous Irish or Scottish ballad, I Know Where I’m Going",
          "text": "I know where I’m going,\nI know who’s going with me,\nI know who I love,\nBut the dear knows who I’ll marry."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Cynthia Harrod-Eagles, The Dear Departed, page 205",
          "text": "And there it sits, spreading rubbish about because of the cats, and smelling like the Dear knows what.",
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        "God knows; nobody knows"
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        "(Ireland, dated) God knows; nobody knows"
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          "ref": "1939, Flann O'Brien, chapter 1, in At Swim-two-birds",
          "text": "The dear knows your father worked hard enough for the money he is laying out on your education.",
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        "God knows; of course, certainly, nobody could doubt"
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        "(Ireland, dated) God knows; of course, certainly, nobody could doubt"
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          "text": "O thou, whom poets call Melpomene,\nWho hast inspir'd, the dear knows how many\nIn ancient times to sing O Dear O's\nOn hapless fates of unknown heroes,"
        },
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          "ref": "19th century Anonymous Irish or Scottish ballad, I Know Where I’m Going",
          "text": "I know where I’m going,\nI know who’s going with me,\nI know who I love,\nBut the dear knows who I’ll marry."
        },
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          "text": "And there it sits, spreading rubbish about because of the cats, and smelling like the Dear knows what.",
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