I'll be hanged if I (do something)
I'll be hanged if I (do something)
I am determined not to do something. I'll be hanged if I let some young upstart like you take control of my company!
See also: hanged, if
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
I'll be hanged
1. I am very surprised, as in, Well, I'll be hanged; there's Susan.
2. I'll be hanged if I. Under no circumstances will I, as in I'll be hanged if I let you do that. Both of these hyperbolic colloquial usages allude to being executed by hanging.
See also: hanged
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
- I'm hanged if I know!
- hanged
- (I'll be) hanged if I know!
- I'll be damned if I (do something)
- I'm be damned if I (do something)
- I'm/I'll be damned if...
- jiggered
- bless the world with (one's) heels
- die of throat trouble
- hang in effigy