[Ads-l] Antedating of "Damned If You Do and Damned If You Don't"

[Shapiro, Fred]

damned if you do and damned if you don't (OED 1838)

1836 Lorenzo Dow Reflections on the Love of God​ 30

And you will be damned if you do -- And you will be damned if you don't.

Fred Shapiro

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