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as hell can be used with more or less any adjective. It's not really a simile in the usual sense, either, since it isn't suggesting that "hell" is something scared (cf. cold as ice, where ice is cold). Equinox◑04:09, 26 February 2016 (UTC)Reply
In fact, it is a simile, grammatically speaking. The fact that it does not make much sense as a comparison does not detract from this; we do have similes making little sense, and that is what makes it easier to keep them. It is just that "as hell" is so productive that it probably makes more sense to document it only at as hell or, if other editors allow, at the most common combinations. --Dan Polansky (talk) 13:20, 12 March 2016 (UTC)Reply
It probably started with hot as hell. That's the one that makes sense. Then people started using other adjectives before "as hell", producing "cold as hell", "scared as hell", "nice as hell", "dark as hell" etc.
Delete per nom. The entry for as hell might benefit from more usage examples, eg, usage with positive and negative valence adjectives, with words not normally associated with hell, with and without preceding as. DCDuringTALK15:27, 12 March 2016 (UTC)Reply
