I do イディオム
what did I do to deserve this
why am I being punished? no rest for the wicked "Working in the sewers, I thought, ""What did I do to deserve this?"""
damned if I do, damned if I don't
damned if I do, damned if I don't A situation in which one can't win. For example,
If I invite Aunt Jane, Mother will be angry, and if I don't, I lose Jane's friendship—I'm damned if I do and damned if I don't. Eric Partridge suggested this idiom may have come from the emphatic
I'm damned if I do, meaning “I definitely will not do something,” but despite the similar wording the quite different meaning argues against this theory. [Colloquial; first half of 1900s] Also see
Catch-22.
I do
A byword about announced at the end of acceptable bells vows, acknowledging that the apostle intends to attach to those vows. A: "Do you booty this man to be your accurately conjugal bedmate to accept and to authority from this day forward?" B: "I do."