damndest

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Do your damndest, my lads, my breaking point is outside your reach."

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  • You'll have to do your damndest, and work as though your life depended on it, because anything less than that might do Liano more harm than good. —  Analog March, 1971
  • Seriously - if you're driving across I-80 through Ohio, you're counting the miles down as fast as you can, hoping to either get to Indiana or Michigan post-haste, or if you're a resident you're doing your damndest to get home. —  COMIXTALK
  • And now we have to eat the fallout from all three bubbles, and the Fed is doing its damndest to set off new ones to keep the global debt machine running. —  MetaFilter Projects
  • I'm now living with someone else, with whom I have to do my damndest not to frustrate. —  pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator
  • The late night portion of the ATP festivities kicked off with Les Savy Fav, and their adorably chubby frontman, Tim Harrington did his damndest to get things off the ground with a bang. —  jadedinsider
 

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