I wish I may be shot

English

Phrase

I wish I may be shot

  1. (colloquial, archaic) A form of mild swearing used to emphasize 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.

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References

  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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