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damn all en · PRON

Meanings

  1. (informal, vulgar) Nothing (not any thing: no thing).
    • And that's just to let you see we don't spend all our time sitting round on our arses doing damn all. 1976, L. P. Davies, Possession, The Crime Club, →ISBN, page 112:
    • "The rice ration's down to nearly damn-all in the kampongs, but we keep finding dumps of grub in the forest." 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 298:
    • Humphrey Appleby: Well, isn't that rather serious? I mean Buranda's a friendly African country with a Commonwealth connection. Frederick Stewart: Our information is it's likely to be turned into a hostile LDC with a Cuban connection. Humphrey Appleby: What will the Government do about it? Frederick Stewart: The same as they always do: Both: damn all! (laugh track) 1980 March 3, Antony Jay, Jonathan Lynn, “The Official Visit”, in Yes, Minister, season 1, episode 2, spoken by Humphrey Appleby and Frederick Stewart (Nigel Hawthorne and John Savident):