in hell

in hell

English

Prepositional phrase

in hell

  1. (mildly vulgar) Used as an intensifier to emphasize how unlikely something is.
    • 2009, Jan K. Herman, Navy Medicine in Vietnam, page 204:
      I knew very well I had no chance in hell that I could handle this group of people definitively.
    • 2013, Doris Miller, DIANE D: The Musical Drama, page 218:
      There's no way in hell will I be your family's housekeeper while your family has Mike and Mitch living here with them!
    • 2021, Sara Gibbs, Drama Queen: One Autistic Woman and a Life of Unhelpful Labels:
      As if having a copper rod you don't have a hope in hell of catching flying towards your face isn't traumatic enough, sometimes the teacher would introduce a second rod, so you had to both throw and catch at the same time.
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