(1) No, wait, that was her nameu2026 drat , I didn't write down the name.

(2) My life, drat the luck, is nothing but incremental improvements - and all these little modifications are so twitchy and unstable I have to buy service contracts for the day when they blow up.

(3) U2018Oh, drat ,u2019 I muttered, doing my Victor Meldrew impression.

(4) We were going to head up the riverfront boulevard, but drat the luck: the driver noted that the tunnel beneath the bridge was three inches too short, and any attempt to go through the passageway would decapitate the people on the upper desk.

(5) On preview: most of these have been mentioned already - drat having to work in the middle of posting!

(6) Mind you, I'll be moving next month, so I'll be out of the neighbourhood - drat .

(7) And drat the luck, the search got just odd enough to tip the anecdote to column status, but not great column status.

(8) I scan 24 and get out the credit card - but the site is unable to accept orders at the moment, drat the luck.

(9) I was thinking I'd be farther along in my nefarious plans before I got a super herou2026 drat it.

(10) Drat and double drat - no AA batteries in the house.

(11) Oh drat u2026 did I make a mistake with the growing spell?

(12) She'd been obsessed with him, ever since, ever sinceu2026 Oh I don't know, drat !

(13) Second, if something is too dangerous for the poor I still don't see why it's not too dangerous for the rich - either ban the dratted things or treat them like other schools.

(14) There's no telling with the dratted things but they cling to life with a tenacity not unlike chewing gum trodden into carpet pile and it's more likely that it'll spring into life somewhere around the end of April, beginning of May.

(15) You'll be justified in shooting the leaping, slavering, fanged attack dog, even if it would have been best if you'd never poked the dratted thing in the first place.

(16) Naturally, there were plenty of elephant droppings scattered all over the show and we'd stop and carefully search each one for a dratted dung beetle.

(17) It is as omnipresent as those dratted gadgets themselves.

(18) U2018Oh, drat Feargal and his suspicions!u2019