I'll be hanged
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I am very surprised, as in, Well, I'll be hanged; there's Susan .
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I'll be hanged if I . Under no circumstances will I, as in I'll be hanged if I let you do that . Both of these hyperbolic colloquial usages allude to being executed by hanging.
Example Sentences
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"I'll be hanged if this is not some of your American jokes upon us," he said to Franklin.
From Time Magazine Archive
I'll be hanged if erysipelas is not always a result of a disordered state of the digestive organs .
From Time Magazine Archive
Said Lincoln of Meade's performance: "I'll be hanged if I could think of anything but an old woman trying to shoo her geese across a creek."
From Time Magazine Archive
"I'm prepared to be hanged for what I am," Vorster told the press, "but I'll be damned if I'll be hanged for what I am not."
From Time Magazine Archive
“Everybody else tried to kill it. Chicago built it. I am here to save it and I’ll be hanged if I haven’t.”
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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