damn well
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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
He has been doing this for a lot longer than them, and he has played the game pretty damn well until now.
From Slate ● Jun. 27, 2023
“So they figured that they could do whatever they damn well please as long as they paid money for protection.”
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 19, 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
“Well then. But I mean, the whole war could be damn well over soon, beg pardon, and my boys would have missed it. And these are Virginians, sir, and have a certain pride.”
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
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