to send someone to hell
26
8.9
- idiom
- Offensive
:
mandar a la mierda
- I was so furious that I wanted to send him to hell for disrespecting me.
- sends me to hell, then
Examples
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Don't let your pride send you to hell.
Fiction book (1996) -
My parents can send me to hell, but I will marry her!
Fiction book (1997) -
Let's send them to hell!
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I'll send you to hell!
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Tommy would send me straight to hell.
Fiction book (2002) -
l'm gonna send you to hell.
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Send him to hell!
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My deputies will find you, they'll smoke you out of your holes, and they'll send you back to hell.
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After the argument, she felt like she could just send him to hell and never look back.
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Angry at his betrayal, he decided to send her to hell in their heated confrontation.
Synonyms
67
9.5
Tell someone angrily that you do not care about them
38
9.6
Say that you want someone to suffer forever after they die
19
9.7
To wish that someone suffers and is punished after they die
1
9.9
To officially say that something is evil and must be rejected
1
9.9
To strongly hate and say someone or something is very bad
1
8.2
To tell someone to go away in a mild, angry way
To say that someone will be punished forever after death
Antonyms
How Angry
- Offensive
26
8.9
- Offensive
192
4.1
- UK
- Informal
5
6.4
- Informal
Surface Forms
Morphology
The literal composition ('send' + 'to' + 'hell') conveys a clear hostile image — wishing someone to go to a realm of punishment — so a B1 learner who knows the words will likely infer strong anger or insult. However, its conventional pragmatic use as an idiomatic way to angrily dismiss, curse, or show contempt is metaphorical and culturally loaded, so the exact sense and register are not fully predictable without prior exposure.
Etymology
Send someone to hell comes from the strong image of literally send someone to hell, a place of punishment, so people used it to show deep anger or contempt. That's why today it means 'to angrily dismiss or reject someone'.