deuce it
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Kecmanovic, though, wins four points in a row ... only to be diddled by an incredible lob; deuce it is, then again when Monfils nails a blazing forehand.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 23, 2022
The Countess, at this, looked sharply at Beale, and Beale, airily enough, asked what the deuce it mattered when she had already given him to understand she wanted to have nothing to do with them.
From What Maisie Knew by Henry James
"The deuce it is!" said Henry, gazing after Lionel with interest.
From The Gay Adventure A Romance by Richard Bird
I don’t know what the deuce it is, but the nearest description to it in a ‘Materia Medica,’ etc., is pemphigus, so pemphigus it is, and he has been ‘tonic-ed’ and massaged.
From South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition by Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton
But what I can't seem to understand," he said frankly, "is why the deuce it didn't work!
From The Uphill Climb by B. M. Bower