Interjection
I never did
(idiomatic, dated) An exclamation of great surprise.
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