| 单词 | damned if i do, damned if i don't |
| 释义 | damned if I do, damned if I don'tA situation in which one can't win. For example, If I invite Aunt Jane, Mother will be angry, and if I don't, I lose Jane's friendship—I'm damned if I do and damned if I don't. Eric Partridge suggested this idiom may have come from the emphatic I'm damned if I do, meaning “I definitely will not do something,” but despite the similar wording the quite different meaning argues against this theory. [Colloquial; first half of 1900s] Also see catch-22. Words nearby damned if I do, damned if I don'tdamnably, damnation, damnatory, damned, damnedest, damned if I do, damned if I don't, damnify, damning, Damn the torpedoes, damn well, damn with faint praise The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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