I'll be hanged



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

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Ragna-Icelandic, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Ancient Scandinavian
Premislav-Medieval Slavic (Hypothetical)
Hermionehər-MIE-ə-nee (English)Greek Mythology
Raja (2)-Urdu, Tamil, Indian, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Hindi, Marathi, Indonesian
Eliou-Biblical Greek
Ambrogio-Italian