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Idioms and Phrases

Also, damned well . Certainly, without doubt; emphatically. For example, You damn well better improve your grades , or I know damned well that he's leaving me out . The damn in this phrase is mainly an intensifier.

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Example Sentences

Hitch knows damn well that Redford gets pretty much anything he wants.

The post-Breaking Bad life seems to be treating you pretty damn well.

But you damn well better not try to enroll someone in health care.

The Beatles had three, and so did the Beach Boys; they harmonized damn well, too.

They're socially liberal, but they damn well want to keep their money.

He's a wise old bird and if he's worried about something it's damn well worth lookin' into.

Let him git killed though, as I know damn well he's expectin', an' God knows what'll happen.

Now he's gone, yuh know damn well yer ready tuh let out a war whoop of plain an' fancy cheerin'.

Nobody had ever dared question his right to use his own rangers as he damn well pleased!

The minute a man begins to think he has a balance he knows damn well that he hasn't!

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