Sentence examples for bugger it from inspiring English sources

The expression "Bugger it" is an informal phrase that is generally used to express disappointment, frustration or a sense of defeat.
It is considered inappropriate for formal writing and should not be used in this context. Instead, phrases such as "damn it" or "blast it" can be suitable alternatives. For example: "I forgot to buy milk again! Bugger it, I'll have to go to the store again."

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Bugger it.

"Bugger it," he yelled.

Oh bugger it, the whole song's amazing.

"Bugger it!" says a man in a suit, thumping the side of the train in frustration.

I asked myself: What would drive you to suddenly say: 'Bugger it!

Bugger it - I just saw it again, and I did scream.

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Perhaps playing so poorly creates a certain freedom, an "oh-bugger-it" attitude (as Matthew Engel, on these pages, memorably described England's cricket against South Africa during a famous victory in 1994).

Then came what Matthew Engel described in the paper as "brilliant oh-bugger-it batting": in the last half hour of the second day, DeFreitas and Gough decided on a bit of Friday night excess, hooking and driving on the up with abandon.

The wonderful thing about Bainbridge – one of the many wonderful things, alongside her redoubtableness, her bugger-it attitude to fags and fry-ups, her mordant wit – was that the breadth of her work was such that everyone I've asked since the news of her death has named a different book as their favourite.

"I just didn't execute; I buggered it up".

Yet before the mandarins could consider the proposal, North Yorkshire buggered it up.

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