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(Yer) dern tootin'!

slang (You are) absolutely right. An even more colloquial variant of "(You're) darn tootin'!" A: "Are you coming to the barbecue today?" B: "Yer dern tootin'! I'll see you there." A: "I'm sorry. It was wrong of me to leap to that conclusion." B: "Dern tootin' it was! But thank you fer apologizin'."
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gol dern

A word used to express frustration or annoyance, typically as an intensifier. An alteration of "goddamn." What is all this gol dern junk doing here? Why won't anyone listen to me, gol dern it?
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

gol dern

 and gol dang
Rur. God damn.; God-damned. Gol dern it, Mary, shut the screen door! Them bugs is get-tin' in here in droves. The gol dang car's in the shop again.
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You're dern tootin'!

Rur. You are absolutely right! (Never the full form tooting.) Tom: Are you really going to take up boxing? Bob: You're dern tootin'! Father: Do you really want to buy that droopy-looking puppy? Bill: You're dern tootin'!
See also: dern
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • toot
  • tootin
  • yer
  • (Yer) dern tootin'!
  • You're dern tootin'!
  • yer one
  • yer wan
  • yer woman
  • yer man
  • gotcha
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The tall Garcia, who won her first two matches comfortably, dominated the fight all the way through, but Dern managed a penalty point and showed tremendous agility to hold on to it till the end.
"There are so many lessons!" enthuses 47-year-old Dern, who jokes that she is on the "manic high" of jet lag after flying to the UK from her native Los Angeles.
"All during your career, you look for a certain kind of security from the people you're working with, people that believe you're talented, that you can do what you can do," says the 76-year-old Dern, who was nominated for an Oscar for his performance in 1978's "Coming Home." "I've been overrated sometimes and I've been underrated, probably more than I've been overrated."
Dern will play the role of a 70-year-old widower Claude, who learns that the love of his life, Lilian (to be played by Silhol), is in a senior home going through difficult times without anybody looking after her.
Dern, in a strapless black gown, was accompanied by Monica Ramirez, the co-founder and president of the National Farmworker Women's Alliance (Alianza Nacional De Campesinas), which represents more than 700,000 women working in the agricultural industry, fighting workplace sexual misconduct.
"Big Little Lies" star Laura Dern has been nominated for an Emmy for her role as Renata in the hit HBO series.
He is joined by actress Laura Dern and newcomer Kelly Marie Tran.
Indeed, the filmmakers have arguably mastered the material's subtle, sardonic insights more so than its big emotional moments, most of which involve Strayed's beloved mother, Bobbi (Laura Dern), whose death from lung cancer at the age of 45 set off her 22-yearold daughter's startling downward spiral into sex and heroin addiction, culminating in the end of her marriage.
Laura Dern, far left, and as Frannie , right, with Hazel (Shailene Woodley) in The Fault In Our Stars Laura Dern, far left, and as Frannie , right, with Hazel (Shailene Woodley) in The Fault In Our Stars THE Fault In Our Stars has reduced even the toughest of cinema-goers to snivelling wrecks.
NEBRASKA (15) ELDERLY curmudgeon Woody Grant (Bruce Dern) receives a bogus prize notification and embarks on a cross-country odyssey to collect the million dollars he believes is waiting for him in the titular state.
Dirt-poor Woody (Bruce Dern) and his son Dave (Will Forte) travel hundreds of miles after Woody gets a letter saying he's won a million dollars - but he'll only qualify if he returns the letter by Monday.
Enlightened (Sky Atlantic, 10pm) LAURA Dern, star of Jurassic Park, Rambling Rose and Inland Empire, takes the lead role in this new comedy drama.
Young lovers Sailor (Nicolas Cage) and Lula (Laura Dern) set out for New Orleans in an attempt to escape Lula's psychotic mother (Diane Ladd).
It's hassle that Greg could do without as he considers a lucrative job offer from pretty drugs rep Andi Garcia (Jessica Alba) and weighs up sending the little ones to the prestigious Early Human School, run by the inspirational headmistress Prudence (Laura Dern).
When they seek answers from the previous resident, Creepy Carl (Bruce Dern), the Thompsons learn that the hole is a portal to The Darkness, a terrifying force that preys upon human fears.