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. Fables by Aesop View in context 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. Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context 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. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Bronte, Anne View in context			be caught short be caught with pants down be centre stage be chalk and cheese be champing at the bit be chasing tail be chief cook and bottle washer be child's play be chilled to the bone be chilled to the marrow be climbing the walls be close to home be close to the bone be close to the mark be coining it be cold comfort be coming apart at the seams be comme il faut be compos mentis be conspicuous by absence be cooked to a turn be cooking on gas be cup of tea be cut from the same cloth be cut to the bone be damned be damned if do and damned if don't be dead and buried be dead from the neck up be dead from the waist down be dead in the water be dead meat be dead on feet be dead to the world be department be done in be done like a dinner be done to death be down in the dumps be down in the mouth be down on like a ton of bricks be down on luck be dressed to kill be dressed up to the nines be dropping like flies be duck soup be duty bound be easy meat be easy on the ear be easy on the eye be economical with the truth			be contemptuous of be conterminous be contiguous be continguous to be contrary be conversant with be converted be convinced be convivial be cooked to a turn be cooking on gas be cooking with gas Be Cool, Not A Fool be counted Be Counted/ Telephone Questionnaire Assistance Field Verification be courteous be cowardly be critical be cunning be cup of tea be cut from the same cloth be cut out for be cut out for be cut out for be cut out for be cut out to be be cut out to be be cut out to be be cut out to be be cut to the bone be damned be damned if do and damned if don't be daunted be dead and buried be dead from the neck up be dead from the waist down be dead in the water be dead meat be dead on feet be dead to the world be debited with be deceitful be deceived be defeated be dejected be delinquent be demoted be dense be department be dependent on be dependent upon be deprived of be deputy for be derelict be derived

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