noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(as) mad as hell (= a rude way of saying very angry )
cast sb into prison/Hell etc
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Memet should, in her opinion, be cast into prison.
hurt like hell informal (= hurt very much )
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My shoulder hurts like hell.
pure hell
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He has described this period as ‘pure hell’.
ran like hell (= ran very quickly, especially in order to escape )
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He picked up the child and ran like hell .
scare the life/living daylights/hell etc out of sb (= scare someone very much )
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The alarm scared the hell out of me.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
living
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It is as if the war, crisis, living hell or chaotic backwater can never be known and will never end.
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It's just a living hell .
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Serving in the Danuese battalions was a living hell .
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Tony Revell says it's living hell to work with, and I believe him.
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The brave heroes returned to an epidemic of influenza which all but carried off those who had survived a living hell .
pure
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He was never able to reveal that his life was pure hell .
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The pure hell of making a speech is only equalled by the agony of the audience.
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Sitting in a small room with a strange man asking me questions is pure hell .
sheer
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It was sheer bloody hell listening to all those fatuous nincompoops saying what a great guy you are.
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The stairs seem like the north face of the Eiger, the temperature sheer hell .
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Or was he just trying to provoke her into an argument for the sheer hell of it?
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The crack-up of personal confidence, the sheer bloody hell of facing every simple decision as a major crisis.
■ VERB
beat
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Well, first we're gon na beat the hell out of you.
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You beat the holy hell out of me and we lied at the X-ray lab and said I fell off a bike.
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To make profit, the Profitboss has only one objective; to beat the hell out of the competition.
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I even looked forward to her sofa-bed and duvet, because it beats the hell out of Victor's rubber lilo.
fight
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We fought like hell for most of the time.
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Must have fought like hell to find its niche within the forest, to distinguish itself within the pack.
get
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You don't wait to pick up personal belongings, you just get the hell out.
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So I wanted to get the hell out of there.
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Yanto's father had got hell from the harbour master and Yanto had got hell from his old man.
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Both of us hit the windshield, and I got a hell of a bump and a four-day headache out of it.
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He had every intention of getting the hell out of Paris just as soon as he had collected all the money owed to him.
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Whoever got him would be getting a hell of player.
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Yes, it was fitting and sweet that I should get the hell out of there.
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I think we should get the hell out of here.
hurt
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I know he lost his legs first, and then his fingers-he died alone and it hurt like hell .
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I was able to breathe only with the utmost difficulty, and my arm hurt like hell .
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It hurt like hell but he was damned if he was going to let the gunman escape.
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My forehead hurt like hell and my body was bruised all over, but no bones were broken.
pay
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For if he ever got lost there would be hell to pay .
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If one of them kicked over the traces, there was hell to pay until he fell obediently back into line.
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If the gardai got to us there'd be hell to pay .
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He'd trace you to wherever you were and there'd be hell to pay .
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I never did lose any at all, but a couple did go missing one day and there was hell to pay .
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They'd just have complained to Mrs Goreng about me, and then there would have been hell to pay .
raise
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If you arrive late, raise merry hell , and insult the stage crew you will certainly be remembered.
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Now she raised hell with him about the letter in the paper.
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But Mitchum has rarely raised any kind of hell .
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It raises hell across the land.
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I raised all kind of hell .
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They raised hell for three weeks.
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I raised so much hell the judge postponed it... told me talk to my lawyer.
rot
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I just hope the people who did this rot in hell .
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Lutz gon na rot in hell .
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Let them rot in hell first!
scare
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Don't even glance at me, my proud beauties: you'd scare the hell out of me.
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Just to make the move scared the hell out of me.
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You know it too, and you're scared as hell .
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Today, he scares the hell out of a lot of Republicans.
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Statistics like that scare the hell out of me, and they must scare a lot of CEOs too.
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It scared the hell out of me.
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Tornadoes are not fascinating to me; they scare the hell out of me.
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There is no stopping planned randomness, and that scares the hell out of us.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(as) sure as hell
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I'm sure as hell not gonna do it.
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Alan, if I could get you out of there, I sure as hell would.
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And they sure as hell don't understand any of us.
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But it will sure as hell make him think twice before risking it.
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Goddamn that tune, it sure as hell sounds familiar!
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I as sure as hell don't want it.
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I don't think I scare easily, but I sure as hell scared myself that weekend.
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Not even that low humming sound which I knew sure as hell wasn't the thermostat on the fridge.
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They sure as hell don't need your paper and even less journalists like Steven Wells with his repetitive, egotistical comments!
a living hell
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My life has been a living hell since the attack.
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The last two and a half weeks have been a living hell.
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By lunchtime, everyone would know, and they would make her life a living hell after that.
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If life in the South was corrupt and callous, in the North it was a living hell.
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It's just a living hell.
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Serving in the Danuese battalions was a living hell.
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That first call had been the start of a campaign of intimidation that had transformed Polly's life into a living hell.
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The brave heroes returned to an epidemic of influenza which all but carried off those who had survived a living hell.
like a bat out of hell
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I drove like a bat out of hell to the hospital.
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They took off like a bat out of hell for Tan Son Nhut.
not have a snowball's chance in hell
not stand/have a cat in hell's chance (of doing sth)
raise hell
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It raises hell across the land.
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Now she raised hell with him about the letter in the paper.
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They raised hell for three weeks.
raise hell/Cain
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He spent his teenage years raising hell and stealing cars.
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It raises hell across the land.
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Now she raised hell with him about the letter in the paper.
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They raised hell for three weeks.
rot in hell/jail
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As far as they're concerned we could rot in jail.
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I just hope the people who did this rot in hell.
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Let them rot in hell first!
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Lutz gon na rot in hell.
the devil/hell to pay
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Traffic was hell this morning.
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We lost every game, but hell , I slept well anyway.
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Well, hell , I don't know.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And a hell of a liar, Doll.
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But what the hell , it worked.
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For if he ever got lost there would be hell to pay.
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For the hell of it l do an extra set of bun-twisters on my back, a perennial crowd-pleaser.
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What the hell was he going to do?
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What the bloody hell does he know?
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William Mulholland came to Los Angeles more or less for the hell of it.
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Wondering what the hell he's up to.