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 deuce it is!" said Samson, in good plain English.

From Guns of the Gods by Mundy, Talbot

I should then have passed my days in a state of pleasant bewilderment, trying to figure out how the deuce it happened.

From A Woman Named Smith by Oemler, Marie Conway

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 Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir

"The deuce it did!" said Faxon; but the humor of the situation struck him also before its inconvenience.

From Short Stories for English Courses by Mikels, Rosa Mary Redding