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be damned |
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something be damned this thing is not important. They tend to select the best software packages available, and costs be damned. If you repeat a lie often enough, people will think it must be true, facts be damned. Usage notes: usually used with plural nouns, as in the examples See also: damned |
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Wearied at last by their importunities, the Government said it would be damned if it gave anything. Although, if she had been asked whether she supposed that in the future life, if he did not believe, he would be damned, she would have had to admit that he would be damned, his unbelief did not cause her unhappiness. Then, after a reflective pause, he added, 'At least, I'll tell you how it was I got to know: when I'm with papa, if I say mamma wants me, or mamma says I'm not to do something that he tells me to do, he always says, "Mamma be damned," and Rachel says it's only wicked people that are damned. |
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