hell

Hell is used by some people when they are angry or excited, or when they want to emphasize what they are saying. This use could cause offence.

In some religions, hell is the place where the Devil lives, and where wicked people are sent to be punished when they die. Hell is usually imagined as being under the ground and full of flames.

If you say that a particular situation or place is hell, you are emphasizing that it is extremely unpleasant.

You can use as hell after adjectives or some adverbs to emphasize the adjective or adverb.

If someone does something for the hell of it, or just for the hell of it, they do it for fun or for no particular reason.

You can use from hell after a noun when you are emphasizing that something or someone is extremely unpleasant or evil.

If you tell someone to go to hell, you are angrily telling them to go away and leave you alone.

If you say that someone can go to hell, you are emphasizing angrily that you do not care about them and that they will not stop you doing what you want.

If you say that someone is going hell for leather, you are emphasizing that they are doing something or are moving very quickly and perhaps carelessly.

Some people say like hell to emphasize that they strongly disagree with you or are strongly opposed to what you say.

Some people use like hell to emphasize how strong an action or quality is.

If you say that all hell breaks loose, you are emphasizing that a lot of arguing or fighting suddenly starts.

If you talk about a hell of a lot of something, or one hell of a lot of something, you mean that there is a large amount of it.

Some people use a hell of or one hell of to emphasize that something is very good, very bad, or very big.

Some people use the hell out of for emphasis after verbs such as 'scare', 'irritate', and 'beat'.

If you say there'll be hell to pay, you are emphasizing that there will be serious trouble.

To play hell with something means to have a bad effect on it or cause great confusion.

People sometimes use the hell for emphasis in questions, after words such as 'what', 'where', and 'why', often in order to express anger.

If you go through hell, or if someone puts you through hell, you have a very difficult or unpleasant time.

If you say you hope to hell or wish to hell that something is true, you are emphasizing that you strongly hope or wish it is true.

You can say 'what the hell' when you decide to do something in spite of the doubts that you have about it.

If you say 'to hell with' something, you are emphasizing that you do not care about something and that it will not stop you from doing what you want to do.