dash it

English

(euphemistic) damn it!
- 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 198:
  Dash it all! I thought to myself, they can’t trade without using some kind of craft on that lot of fresh water - steam-boats!
- 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
  "Where did you pick that up?" "I see it before me, now." "Why, dash it, man, that is what my mother always wore! D'you tell me you can see her?"

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