Drat
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Drat
drat a minced oath used to express vexation, as 'Drat the boy!'
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary Aphetic from God rot!
Sweet, sweet victory over the parking ticket people, the dratted tow truck and the confused courthouse. blog.oregonlive.com
The run for the state Senate 's 19th District seat is one of those dratted cases where I hate to see either candidate lose. columbiatribune.com
So Nurse said: `Drat those boys! "Etheldreda the Ready" by
Drat the girl, where's she got to? "The Moving Finger" by
Wich I thinks hit were that dratted dorg. "Adrift in the Ice-Fields" by
Drat these sniffy snapping Leaguers! "Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, February 18, 1893" by
No, drat her, she's out again! "Sonnie-Boy's People" by
I've had it every year since it became the fashion, drat it! "Miss Pat at Artemis Lodge" by
Drat the luck, anyway. "From Farm to Fortune" by
But you let that dratted Eg heave in sight with all sail sot and signals flyin' and she's all smiles in a minute. "Fair Harbor" by
But for de dratted fence ole Pomp nebber let um reach um own tree. "The Hunters' Feast" by
Oh, of course, It's always some dratted petticoat! "The Book of Humorous Verse" by
And, mounting on a ladder,
He sought the cause of all the noise;
No farmer could be madder,
Which was not hard to understand
Because the glass had cut his hand.
Drowsy-like with sound o' worter and the smell o' clover:
Fish all out a visitin'--'cept some dratted minnor!
Yes, and mill shet down at last and hands is gone to dinner.