be damned

See also: bedamned

English

Phrase

be damned

  1. (mildly vulgar, optative) Used as an exclamation to express irritation with or reckless disregard of a person or thing.
    All they care about is profit, the environment be damned.
    • 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities:
      One pull more and you're at the top, and be damned to you.

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