I never did

Interjection

Meaning

I never did

(idiomatic, dated) An exclamation of great surprise.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell. Harry S. Truman

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun. Thomas Edison

In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language. Mark Twain

I never did anything I'm really ashamed of. Lauryn Hill

I never did say that you can't be a nice guy and win. I said that if I was playing third base and my mother rounded third with the winning run, I'd trip her up. Leo Durocher

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph. No, when I have, fully decided that a result is worth getting, I go about it, and make trial after trial, until it comes. Thomas Edison

Close letter words and terms

i neglect you I negotiate I nest I nod I notice I notify