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In a manner that uses all of the strength, speed, or effort that a person can summon.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: emphatic, intensifier
Examples
- You'd better run like hell!
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Used ironically to express the opposite of one's intentions
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Me do the washing up? Like hell I will!
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Bad or badly.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- You look like hell!
- It stank like hell down there!
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
with great speed or effort or intensity
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- drove like crazy
- worked like hell to get the job done
- ran like sin for the storm cellar
- work like thunder
- fought like the devil
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: like mad, like crazy, like sin, like thunder, like the devil
Antonyms: none provided
used ironically to indicate the opposite of what is stated
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- says he'll help me? Like hell he will!
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
29 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Finnish:
helvetisti
— using all strength, speed, effort that one can summon
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French:
le diable aux trousses
— using all strength, speed, effort that one can summon
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French:
le diable aux cul
— using all strength, speed, effort that one can summon
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French:
le diable aux chausses
— using all strength, speed, effort that one can summon
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French:
à mort
— using all strength, speed, effort that one can summon
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French:
à fond la caisse
— using all strength, speed, effort that one can summon
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French:
à donf
— using all strength, speed, effort that one can summon
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Hungarian:
pokolian
— using all strength, speed, effort that one can summon
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Italian:
a palla
— using all strength, speed, effort that one can summon
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Italian:
a pieno regime
— using all strength, speed, effort that one can summon
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Polish:
jak diabli
— using all strength, speed, effort that one can summon
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Polish:
jak cholera
— using all strength, speed, effort that one can summon
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Swedish:
som fan
— using all strength, speed, effort that one can summon
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Swedish:
så in i helvete
— using all strength, speed, effort that one can summon
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Czech:
tos uhod
— expressing the opposite of one's intentions
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Czech:
to určitě
— expressing the opposite of one's intentions
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French:
mon cul
— expressing the opposite of one's intentions
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French:
c'est mort
— expressing the opposite of one's intentions
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French:
même pas en rêve
— expressing the opposite of one's intentions
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Italian:
col cazzo
— expressing the opposite of one's intentions
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Polish:
nie ma mowy
— expressing the opposite of one's intentions
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Portuguese:
o caraças
— expressing the opposite of one's intentions
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Portuguese:
o tanas
— expressing the opposite of one's intentions
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Portuguese:
o escambau
— expressing the opposite of one's intentions
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Russian:
чёрта с два
(čórta s dva)
— expressing the opposite of one's intentions
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Spanish:
a huevo que
— expressing the opposite of one's intentions
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Swedish:
i helvete heller
— expressing the opposite of one's intentions
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Polish:
okropnie
— bad or badly
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Swedish:
som fan
— bad or badly
