Significato: amnesia

am·ne·si·a || æm'niːzjən. amnesia, perdita della memoria

AMN Idioma

damn it

it is very annoying or frustrating, darn it Damn it! That cigarette smoke is making me ill.

damned if you do and damned if you don't

you are blamed if you do it and blamed if you do not, between the devil..., can't have it both ways "If you offer to help, he refuses; if you don't offer, he complains. You're damned if you do, and damned if you don't."

give a damn/shit

care about, give a hoot Look at his hair. He doesn't give a damn about his appearance.

can I live damn

leave me alone; stay out of my business

damn all

absolutely nothing

damn right

(interj) in agreement with someone; that's true:"Damn right! That test sucked"

damn straight

correct; damn right:"You're damn straight! I'm goin' to crach now"

you damn skippy

yes, with emphasis; "Are you going to see that model tonight? You damn skippy!"

damn with faint praise

Idiom(s): damn sb or sth with faint praise

Theme: CRITICISM

to criticize someone or something indirectly by not praising enthusiastically.
• The critic did not say that he disliked the play, but he damned it with faint praise.
• Mrs. Brown is very proud of her son's achievements, but damns her daughter's with faint praise.

damned if one does, damned if one doesn't|damn

adj. phr. No matter what one does, someone is likely to criticize one. No matter what decisions I make, there are always some people who will approve them and those who won't. It is a classical case of "damned if I do, damned if I don't."

one damn thing after another|ODTAA|damn thing|one

(pronounced owed-tay) n. phr. If there is one problem, there will be more. First I lost my wallet, then a kid broke the window, and, lastly, my car refused to start. It was just one damn thing after another!
Compare: IF IT'S NOT ONE THING IT'S ANOTHER.

damn

damn
In addition to the idioms beginning with damn, also see do one's best; give a damn; not worth a damn.
* * *
- damn well
- damn with faint praise
- damned if I do, damned if I don't

damn well

damn well
Also, damned well. Certainly, without doubt; emphatically. For example, You damn well better improve your grades, or I know damned well that he's leaving me out. The damn in this phrase is mainly an intensifier.

damned

damned
1.
do one's damnedest (or damndest)
Informal to do or try one's utmost
2.
the damned
Theol. souls doomed to eternal punishment

damned if I do, damned if I don't

damned if I do, damned if I don't
A situation in which one can't win. For example, If I invite Aunt Jane, Mother will be angry, and if I don't, I lose Jane's friendship—I'm damned if I do and damned if I don't. Eric Partridge suggested this idiom may have come from the emphatic I'm damned if I do, meaning “I definitely will not do something,” but despite the similar wording the quite different meaning argues against this theory. [Colloquial; first half of 1900s] Also see Catch-22.

give a damn

give a damn
see not give a damn.

not give a damn

not give a damn
Also, not give a fig or hang or hoot or rap or shit. Not care about, be indifferent to, as in I don't give a damn about him, or She doesn't give a fig if he comes or not. The nouns in all these terms signify something totally worthless. Although probably in oral use for much longer, damn is first recorded in this negative form in the late 1700s and the worthless item it is used to denigrate is a curse. Fig has denoted something small and worthless since about 1400, and hang since the mid-1800s; hoot has been used for the smallest particle since the later 1800s; rap, also for the smallest particle, since the first half of the 1800s, and shit, for excrement, since about 1920. All but the first of these terms are colloquial and the last (using shit) is vulgar.

not worth a damn

not worth a damn
Also, not worth a plugged nickel or red cent or bean or hill of beans or fig or straw or tinker's damn. Worthless, as in That car isn't worth a damn, or My new tennis racket is not worth a plugged nickel. As for the nouns here, a damn or curse is clearly of no great value (also see not give a damn); a plugged nickel in the 1800s referred to a debased five-cent coin; a cent denotes the smallest American coin, which was red when made of pure copper (1800s); a bean has been considered trivial or worthless since the late 1300s (Chaucer so used it), whereas hill of beans alludes to a planting method whereby four or five beans are put in a mound (and still are worthless); and both fig and straw have been items of no worth since about 1400. A tinker's dam, first recorded in 1877, was a wall of dough raised around a spot where a metal pipe is being repaired so as to hold solder in place until it hardens, whereupon the dam is discarded. However, tinker's damn was first recorded in 1839 and probably was merely an intensification of “not worth a damn,” rather than having anything to do with the dam.