drat

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drat

An expression of annoyance or frustration. Drat, the library closed five minutes ago—I knew I should have left the house earlier. Did Helen already leave? Drat!
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

Drat!

(dræt)
exclam. Damn! Oh, drat! Another broken nail!
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • Drat!
  • It sucks
  • it/that sucks
  • DGAF
  • be a thorn in (one's) side
  • be a thorn in your flesh/side
  • a thorn in (one's) side
  • a thorn in someone's side
  • a thorn in your side
  • be a thorn in (one's) flesh
References in periodicals archive
No studies have examined switching antidepressants after DRAT. Switching to a medication with a different mechanism may be justified based on the results of treatment-resistant depression (TRD) trials, in which patients who failed to respond to an initial medication--typically an SSRI--improved after switching to an antidepressant from a different class.
The Court engaged in a serious analysis of whether certain aspects of the proposed drat, such as controlling systemic risk or collecting national data, could be done on a province by province basis.
Drat, thought the physician, as he studied the x-rays of a favorite patient -- this part again.
There are one or two slips (for instance, The Drunken Boat is attributed to Baudelaire rather than Rimbaud--though perhaps this is the fault of Drat Siltlow, the character who tells us this, rather than of Gordon), but the usage rules are all carefully and effectively drawn.
Children misbehave hilariously and are punished outrageously in his nonsense poems published in Brats (1986), Fresh Brats (1990), and Drat These Brats!
The school launched an early version of its Development Research and Tracking System (DRAT) at the start of the Capital Campaign in 1989 in response to the research department's need for both a more efficient way to target high-level donors and to more effectively market itself to them.
Since their big announcement they did slightly backtrack by saying it won't last forever (drat!).
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"After listening to each of the members' concerns, our colleague George Adwan presented his plan to bring views closer and distributed a program based on the proposal of Speaker Nabih Berri, allowing each Deputy to write his remarks," Ghanem explained, adding that the plan will hopefully be tackled consensually in next Tuesday's session so as to reach a final drat to be submitted to the Parliament.
The meeting will discussed a number of topics and unified draft laws, such as the unified judiciary draft law, the unified drat law to combat cybercrime and the unified draft law for family court, in addition to reviewing a number of reports referred from the specialized committees.
I guess that means I still can't hate Jamie Oliver - drat and double drat!
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* A colored top strip drat allows fingerprint-free handling.