damnedest

Word family

damned·est /ˈdæmdɪst/ adjectiveadj spoken not polite

1 do/try your damnedest spoken not polite TRY TO DO OR GET somethingto try very hard to do something 尽最大努力

I’ll do my damnedest to fix it, but I can’t promise anything.

我会尽全力去修，但是我不能保证什么。

Examples from the Corpus

do/try your damnedest• All right, tell the girls, do your damnedest.• We both tried our damnedest but it didn't work.• He had tried to make it work, tried his damnedest, but she had absolutely no sense of taste or refinement.• If I do as you suggest and tell Billy about us, he will do his damnedest to destroy me in revenge.• But both the Trust and those of us lucky enough to live there will do our damnedest to prevent it.

2 UNUSUAL[only before noun] used to emphasize that something is unusual, surprising etc 绝对奇妙的，绝对惊人的

It was the damnedest thing you ever saw!

那绝对是你见过的最奇妙的玩意儿！

Examples from the Corpus

damnedest• All right, tell the girls, do your damnedest.• He was a natural you find them sometimes if you're lucky and from the damnedest backgrounds.• "It's the damnedest case I've ever seen, " said the sheriff.• It was only by the damnedest luck I found his apartment.• But by now most of us well know that these intermittent statistics are the damnedest of lies.• If I do as you suggest and tell Billy about us, he will do his damnedest to destroy me in revenge.• Merry collapsed on a heap of mud, and the bull tried his damnedest to get him.• But both the Trust and those of us lucky enough to live there will do our damnedest to prevent it.• He has done his damnedest to supply the etymologies whenever he can, and they all ring true.

damned·est adjectiveadj

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damnedest

Unusual in a strange way: strange, funny, weird...

To try hard to do or get something: boil the ocean, work, strive...

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