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swear blind

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swear blind  (british & Australian) also swear up and down/black and blue (American & Australian/Australian)
to say that something is completely true, especially when someone does not believe you He swore up and down that he'd never seen the letter. If I ask her, I know she'll swear blind she locked the door. He swore black and blue he had nothing to do with the missing money.
See also: blind, swear


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I swear blind I heard his droning Scottish tones spouting rhetoric about the perils facing the British state, to the strains of Land of Hope and Glory and the flapping of the Union Jack.
I did go to the police and they were very sympathetic but it was decided not to go ahead and charge him as his family would swear blind that he was the real victim.
Ask any passionate footy fan, and they will no doubt swear blind that the league in their home nation is the best.
 
 
 
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