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  2. Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn - Wikipedia

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    Although legend persists that the Hays Office fined producer David O. Selznick $5,000 (~$109,522 in 2023) for using the word "damn", in fact the MPPDA board passed an amendment to the Production Code a month and a half before the film's release, on November 1, 1939, that allowed use of the words "hell" or "damn" when their use "shall be ...

  3. Damnation - Wikipedia

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    In Indian English, there is an incorrect etymology connecting "I don't give a damn" with the dam, a 16th-century copper coin. Salman Rushdie , in a 1985 essay on the dictionary of Anglo-Indian terms Hobson-Jobson , ends with this: " ' Frankly, my dear, I don't give a small copper coin weighing one tolah , eight mashas and seven surkhs, being ...

  4. Minced oath - Wikipedia

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    Thus the word bloody can become blooming, or ruddy. [3] Alliterative minced oaths such as darn for damn allow a speaker to begin to say the prohibited word and then change to a more acceptable expression. [4] In rhyming slang, rhyming euphemisms are often truncated so that the rhyme is eliminated; prick became Hampton Wick and then simply Hampton.

  5. Swedish profanity - Wikipedia

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    Notably, no word for sexual intercourse is commonly used in invectives, unlike many other languages (e.g., English fuck, Spanish joder, Mandarin cào / 肏/操). [1] However, calques of English fuck using knull (noun), knulla (verb) do occur; this comes across as more offensive than fuck does in English.

  6. Eric Trump says US doesn’t ‘give a damn’ about Prince Harry ...

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    Eric Trump reckons Prince Harry need not worry about his US visa debacle — because no one in America “gives a damn” about him. The ex-president’s second son, 40, had some scathing remarks ...

  7. Profanity - Wikipedia

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    Profanity is often depicted in images by grawlixes, which substitute symbols for words.. Profanity, also known as swearing, cursing, or cussing, involves the use of notionally offensive words for a variety of purposes, including to demonstrate disrespect or negativity, to relieve pain, to express a strong emotion, as a grammatical intensifier or emphasis, or to express informality or ...

  8. Michelle Obama is every Black woman who wanted to say ‘no ...

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    Michelle Obama is every Black woman who wanted to say ‘no’ and not give a damn afterward. Natasha S. Alford. January 15, 2025 at 9:17 PM.

  9. AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes - Wikipedia

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    A jury consisting of 1,500 film artists, critics, and historians selected "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn", spoken by Clark Gable as Rhett Butler in the 1939 American Civil War epic Gone with the Wind, as the most memorable American movie quotation of all time.