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And perish the thought of acknowledging in any significant way how so many of those "investments" have failed spectacularly, including the Zumwalt-class destroyers and the Navy's Freedom-class littoral combat ships that came to be known in the Pentagon as "little crappy ships."

The problem is that part of the humor is supposed to derive from the fact that these rich people are African—because perish the thought that an African could actually be well-off, especially compared with an American.

The tomcat was a sentimental topic of conversation in Cameron’s final appearance in Parliament as prime minister when he said he wanted to quash a rumor that — perish the thought — he didn’t like Larry.

Promoting a forthcoming episode of her show that examines the dark arts, Beard added: “We all know what used to happen to witches and for centuries the charge of witchcraft was used to disempower and punish what seemed to be the threat of women in society. There was a fear of female agency, a fear of women communing with a supernatural world where – perish the thought! – the patriarchy was not fully in place and, perhaps most profoundly, a fear of older women.”

Perish the thought that financial institutions should factor climate risks into investment decision-making.