The phrase "about the goddam" is not standard in written English and may be considered informal or vulgar.
It can be used in casual conversation or informal writing to express frustration or emphasis regarding a topic.
Example: "I can't believe we're still talking about the goddam issue when there are more important matters to address."
Alternatives: "about the damn" or "regarding the hell".
The poetic keynote to the film comes from Earl's grizzled death-bed lament about "the goddam regret".
In one draft, the wife complains about the "goddam shack" that is obsessing her husband, and pettily points out that, "for a woman," its primitive stove was terribly inconvenient.
Concerning trends, 2016 was a year when many of us stopped fretting about the goddam auction market, a game played by people with too much money and spectated by people with too much regard for money.
If he saw a man on crutches during his morning ferry ride to Wall Street and then the market went down, he'd come home grumbling about the "goddam cripple".
I'm from West Virginia, I'm the first man in my family not to work in the coal mines, my mother scrubbed floors on her knees for a living, and you're going to tell me about the goddam blues because you read some book written by John Hammond?
Listening to these disembodied voices on these last tapes (the recordings stopped in July, when the recording system was revealed), I was struck by how Nixon, talking for the taped record — a month before the televised Watergate hearings began — was already trying to rewrite the past ("I wasn't even thinking about the goddam campaign").
People about half piss me off, gossipin' and nailin' each other to the goddam cross over things they are all guilty of.
He was furious: "Have those who talk about its abnormalities no imagination?" Did Anne Carroll Moore think she could rule his library from the goddam Grosvenor?
"Tag the goddam stadium".
Killin' the goddam water buffalo!
Like Holden Caulfield, she uses "goddam" as a calm, humorous all-purpose adjective (the goddam streets, the goddam people, the goddam pictures).
