damn well

Idioms

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.

Example Sentences

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“If you make a promise, you should keep it, and if you promise women you’re going to help them, then you damn well better do it,” Ms. Mace said.

From Washington Times • Oct. 3, 2023

“This damn well better be good” is probably not the mood filmmakers or festival planners are going for.

From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2023

“They seem to be doing damn well without me,” O’Brien said.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 27, 2022

And that, apparently, was when she decided that if you can only barely beat them, you'd damn well better join them.

From Salon • Nov. 2, 2021

I dragged him toward my room, him shouting how this better be good, how the house damn well better be on fire, and Snout barking like we were on a dove shoot.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd

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