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I'll be hanged if...

UK old-fashioned

Definition

used to express your determination not to do something or not to allow someone else to do something: I'll be hanged if I'm going to clean up after him!Intensifying expressions
(Definition of I'll be hanged if... from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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