<span class="searchmatch">to</span> <span class="searchmatch">hell</span> <span class="searchmatch">with</span> (mildly vulgar) Used <span class="searchmatch">to</span> show displeasure or disregard toward the named person or thing. 1897, Bram Stoker, “Dr. Seward’s Diary”, in Dracula...
Wives, →ISBN: Just because he's single he thinks he can do anything he wants <span class="searchmatch">with</span> anybody and <span class="searchmatch">hell</span> mend <span class="searchmatch">him</span> if this latest venture turns sour on <span class="searchmatch">him</span>....
out <span class="searchmatch">with</span> <span class="searchmatch">him</span>?" "When <span class="searchmatch">Hell</span> freezes over!" "When will the sun shine in Dunedin?" "When <span class="searchmatch">Hell</span> freezes over!" cold day in <span class="searchmatch">Hell</span> snowball's chance in <span class="searchmatch">hell</span> until...
23:14: Thou shalt beat <span class="searchmatch">him</span> <span class="searchmatch">with</span> the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from <span class="searchmatch">hell</span>. 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost: Better <span class="searchmatch">to</span> reign in <span class="searchmatch">Hell</span> than serve in Heaven...
participle given someone <span class="searchmatch">hell</span>) (idiomatic) <span class="searchmatch">To</span> castigate someone; <span class="searchmatch">to</span> dress them down. Near-synonym: raise <span class="searchmatch">hell</span> His boss really gave <span class="searchmatch">him</span> <span class="searchmatch">hell</span> when she found out...
See also: <span class="searchmatch">Hell</span> no <span class="searchmatch">Hell</span> no <span class="searchmatch">hell</span> <span class="searchmatch">to</span> the no <span class="searchmatch">hell</span> <span class="searchmatch">to</span> the naw <span class="searchmatch">hell's</span> no <span class="searchmatch">hell</span> no (slang, mildly vulgar) Expressing firm disagreement. Synonyms: heck no, (euphemistic)...
to express the idea of 'not even the smallest chance'. There isn't a cat in <span class="searchmatch">hell's</span> chance that any jury will convict <span class="searchmatch">him</span>. a snowball's chance in <span class="searchmatch">hell</span>...
<span class="searchmatch">him</span> above most others in England. He knew what he wanted and worked like <span class="searchmatch">hell</span> <span class="searchmatch">to</span> try <span class="searchmatch">to</span> make it happen. (negator, mildly vulgar) Used ironically <span class="searchmatch">to</span> express...
siege of Exeter, made sport <span class="searchmatch">with</span> it, and said <span class="searchmatch">to</span> them that were about <span class="searchmatch">him</span>, that the King of rake-<span class="searchmatch">hells</span> was landed in the west... <span class="searchmatch">hell</span>-rake, larkheel...
Stories: "When I'm hungry, there's <span class="searchmatch">hell</span> <span class="searchmatch">to</span> pay if I'm not fed quick." 1921, Zane Grey, chapter 3, in <span class="searchmatch">To</span> The Last Man: "I told <span class="searchmatch">him</span> I had sent for you an' when...