nevertrustme

1. (UK, slang, obsolete)Used in oaths, suggesting that one should never be trusted again if what one says now is not true.
   • c.1590–1592 (date written),William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act V, scene ii],page227, column 2:

     Pet[ruchio]. Now for my lifeHortentio feares his Widow.
     Wid[ow]. Thenneuer truſt me if I be affeard.

   • 1888,Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-1654:

     Never trust me if I had not a suspicion from the first that 'twas that ill-looked fellow B— who made that story Mr. D— told you.

• John Camden Hotten (1873),The Slang Dictionary

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