单词 | not to give a doggone |
释义 | > as lemmasnot to give a doggone In negative contexts: a thing, a ‘damn’. Chiefly in not to give a doggone. ΚΠ 1922 H. Wiley Lily i. 12 Eats when I kin git it, sleeps mos' all de time, I don't give a doggone if de sun don't neveh shine. 1933 E. Caldwell God's Little Acre xviii. 266 That will be my ship coming in, and I don't give a dog-gone for the name you call it. 1950 M. Y. McNeer Calif. Gold Rush 166 I don't care a doggone for your old cheeses, and pies and quilts and sich sort of Yankee fixin's. 1980 B. Jackson & D. Christian Death Row ii. 228 I don't give a doggone about reading about some other guy's experience anyway. 2002 G. P. Ames Panhandle Dreams xiv. 160 I don't give a doggone how mad they are! < as lemmas |
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