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expression of anger or disappointment

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The saying of the interjection, used as a general measure of anything.
- 1935, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, The Luck of the Bodkins:
  ... my life at Cannes was as blameless as dammit.
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- 1938, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, The Code of the Woosters:
  ... and I may say that I was as limpid as dammit.
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- 2006, Dewey Lambdin, A King's Trade, page 294:
  Get us about, quick as dammit! Clew up tops'ls, there!
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- 2007, Ruth Rendell, Not in the Flesh, page 14:
  I mean I'd banked on getting that permission, I'd as near as dammit been promised I'd get it. Can you wonder I was fed up to my back teeth?
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A fastener used for military medals, name tags or other things that are pinned to a uniform; a clutch, a clutchback.
- 2022 July 18, Perry Muse, Morbid Thoughts and the Domino Effect: Passing Thoughts During Cancer, Gatekeeper Press, →ISBN, page 21:
  We couldn't find enough dammits (a cap that goes over the pin to hold it on). We were lucky to find our name tags.
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2010 December 2, Amy Efaw, Battle Dress, Penguin, →ISBN:
dammits: clasps on the back of name tags, BRASS, or service ribbons which are pinned to the uniform.
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