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Mar 12, 2017 · Mar 19, 2012. #13. L’expression "Damned if you do, damned if you don't" («Quoi qu’on fasse, on a toujours tort») a été rendue célèbre par Eleanore Roosevelt qui a dit “Il faut faire ce qu’on pense être juste dans son cœur — puisqu’on sera, de toute façon, critiqué. Quoi qu’on fasse, on a toujours tort.». K.
Jul 24, 2023 · The idiom means I’ll be damned if I do this (which means people will disapprove and/or it won’t turn out well), but I’ll also be damned if I don’t do it – so either way, I can’t win. It has nothing to do with expressions using dang or darn it.
Oct 6, 2022 · Personally, I would only use "damned" or "goddamned" in such a use, but I think it would be odd to insist that you need a participle. There is no "it". For "damn it" or "goddamn it" (which are the "standard" spellings), I have little to add to what Glasguensis and Wordy say, except to note that the WR dictionary rather curiously has "goddamnit" but not "goddammit".
Jul 7, 2018 · Jul 7, 2018. #1. The Merriam-Webster dictionary explains the idiom "I'll be damned" as "used to show that one is very surprised about something", and then gives these examples: I spent an hour putting the machine together and I'll be damned if it didn't fall apart as soon as I tried to use it. I told them they wouldn't enjoy the trip but damned ...
Jan 23, 2018 · KOONS: He knew that if the gooks ever saw the watch, it'd be confiscated, taken away. The way your dad looked at it, this watch was your birthright. He'd be damned if any slope's gonna put their greasy, yellow hands on his boy's birthright, so he hid it in one place he knew he could hide something — his ass. Pulp Fiction, movie. I think it's ...
Aug 6, 2011 · A "facts-be-damned decision" is a decision in which the decision maker (here, S&P) does not care about the facts. President Obama feels that S&P did not consider the facts when it made its decision to downgrade the U.S. debt rating. (That may or may not be true. I don't know.
Apr 1, 2018 · Apr 1, 2018. #3. 'confounded' was used in Britain and America. As an expletive it was probably most popular around the 1900s. dang-blasted / all-fired were (as far as I know) used only in the US. I imagine that these expressions might have been popular in the 1940s-1960s, especially in cowboy/Western movies so as not to offend the audience.
Jul 24, 2017 · Jayden Cool said: I'll be damned if it didn't fall apart as soon as I tried to use it. This means the speaker is swearing that the machine did fall apart immediately. He is saying (1) it fell apart immedistely; (2) if it did not, then he is lying; (3) that lie is so false that if he told it, he would be damned (he would go to hell).
Nov 28, 2010 · Nov 28, 2010. #2. In the US, any of them could work depending on the person and the situation. "Darn" is a euphemism for "damn," but "damn" is now so mild that "darn" sounds silly except in the most trivial circumstances.*. I believe "darn" is not much used in BE. As for damn vs damned - both are correct.
Apr 12, 2013 · Apr 12, 2013. #4. Not being God, you can't actually damn something. The phrase is without the "ed": "Damn the consequences!" "To hell with the consequences!" "The consequences can go to hell!" In this case, you are saying "I don't care if I get a pimple!" not "I sent the pimple to hell!" I would say something more like: I ate it saying "Damn ...
