damn well

Idioms  

1. 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.

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Example Sentences

“It’s like when nations at war dope their soldiers with amphetamines so they’ll stay awake and alert: if your enemy is awake, you damn well better be awake and alert yourself.”

From Slate • Oct. 15, 2024

To paraphrase the delegate’s argument, she was going to do her part to encourage people to vote whenever she damn well pleased, and was disinclined to submit to scripted choreography dictated by some whippersnapper.

From Salon • Aug. 24, 2024

“If you make a promise, you should keep it, and if you promise women you’re going to help them, then you damn well better do it,” Ms. Mace said.

From Washington Times • Oct. 3, 2023

“So they figured that they could do whatever they damn well please as long as they paid money for protection.”

From Seattle Times • Jul. 19, 2022

“You’d better not be lying to me, boy. I don’t fancy a life of piracy, so you’d better damn well be right.”

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi