Billy-be-damned en · ADJ
Meanings
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(colloquial, not-comparable) An expletive; accursed; damned.
He's a Billy-be-damned fool if he thinks that plan will work.
Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
He's a Billy-be-damned fool if he thinks that plan will work.
He whispered to Delilah and—as mad as blazes—the pair stared daggers at me and huffed off. They might hate each other, but Billy-be-damned, they hated me more.2005, Elaine Hatfield, Richard L. Rapson, The Adventures of Firefly, the Tiny Detective, page 22:
It's as cold as Billy-be-damned out there.