- hell⇄expr. come hell or high water, no matter what might happen.
Ex. She allowed herself six weeks ... and announced that ""come hell or high water"" the deadline would be kept (London Times). - hell⇄expr. for the hell of it, (Slang.) for the pleasure derived from it; for kicks.
Ex. The guy who runs the gadget ... sent everything into motion just for the hell of it (Arthur Daley). - hell⇄expr. hell of a, (Slang.)
a. very bad; rotten.
Ex. Business is in one hell of a mess (John Tebbel).
b. very good; exceptional.
Ex. His partner ... describes Watts as ""one hell of a man"" (Ian Adams).
c. very; exceptional - hell⇄expr. play hell with, (Slang.) play havoc with; ruin.
Ex. A ten percent alteration in the specifications of a transistor will play hell with the circuit (Esquire). - hell⇄expr. raise hell, (Slang.) to make a disturbance; raise the devil.
Ex. Parents ... raise hell if their child is expected to study under miserable conditions (Brian Jackson). - hell⇄expr. to hell and gone, (Slang.) to an extreme distance or degree.
Ex. I'd lost a lot of weight while Dick and me were out on the road riding all to hell and gone (New Yorker). - hell⇄hell, noun, interjection.
- hell⇄interj. a mild curse or exclamation of anger, annoyance, or surprise; heck.
- hell⇄noun 1. (in Christian and some other religious use) the place where wicked persons are punished after death; the abode of devils and damned spirits.
Ex. Hell is a city much like London--a populous and smoky city (Shelley).
2. the powers of e