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hanged

/ˈhæŋd/ adjective B2
  1. damned (as an intensifier or vehement denial) (informal) · I'm hanged if I know how to get the idea through his thick skull!
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A body can get used to anything, even to being hanged, as the Irishman said.”
Anne of Green Gables, p. 3 · C1
Old Baron Dowson said the night before he was hanged that in my case what the law had gained the stage had lost.
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, p. 37 · B2
You have done your best to get an innocent man hanged.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 62 · C1
“May I be hanged,” said Danglars, glancing at the bandit’s dinner through the crevices of the door,—“may I be hanged if I can understand how people can eat such filth!” and he withdrew to seat himself upon his goat-skin, which reminded him of the smell of the brandy.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 1076 · C1

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