I wish I may be shot
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Phrase
- (colloquial, archaic) A form of mild swearing used to emphasis the truth of an assertion; accompanied by if and the opposite of the assertion.
- 1842, William Harrison Ainsworth, Ainsworth's Magazine, page 90:
- It's a joke — if it isn't, I wish I may be shot.
Alternative forms
References
- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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