An exclamation

[Homayun]

What does it mean '' Damned if that don't cut it''?

 

[Tarheel]

What's the context?

 

[Homayun]

What does it mean '' Damned if that don't cut it''?

I came across it in the western movie ''Pale Rider'' 1985. The conversation between the tin pans goes like this:
''They were counting on him to beat LaHood himself.
I reckon I did all right by you before he came. Didn't I?
Damned if that don't cut it. LaHood dammed up the creek.''

 

[emsr2d2]

What does it mean "Damned if that don't cut it" mean?

I came across it in the western movie "Pale Rider", 1985. The conversation between the tin pans goes like this:
"They were counting on him to beat LaHood himself.
I reckon I did all right by you before he came. Didn't I?
Damned if that don't cut it. LaHood dammed up the creek."

Note my corrections above. It's important for you to learn how to construct a question correctly. Also, please try to find the quotation marks key on your keyboard. We don't make them by using two apostrophes together.
What on earth are "tin pans"?
If those lines were spoken by different people, you need to put their names at the start of each of their lines of dialogue.

 

[Tarheel]

@Homayun That helps a little. Apparently, he's upset with Lahood for what he did (dam up the creek).

It's similar to expressions such as "That's a hell of a note" or "Don't that beat all!" The person is expressing frustration and annoyance.

 

[emsr2d2]

Using "Damned" at the beginning of a sentence like that is a shortened version of "Well, I'll be damned if ...". It expresses surprise.

 

[probus]

"Cut it" is an AmE idiom meaning "be sufficient" or "achieve the pupose". It is nearly always used in the negative. I've never heard "That will cut it". "Don't" is used rather than "doesn't" because that is how Hollywood imagines people spoke in the Old West.