to go to hell
67
9.5
- phrasal verb
- /ɡoʊ tə hɛl/
- Offensive
:
mandar a alguien a la mierda (vulgar)
- If you did not, you can go to hell yourself," she said.
- tell someone to go to hell
- say 'go to hell'
- go to hell, bitch
All I'm going to say, all I'm going to say is that Patrick can go to hell.
- All I'm going to say, all I'm going to say is that Patrick can go to hell.
- Hey, Mike Pence, how about you Pokémon Go to hell?
- So basically it was telling the Hawks to go to hell.
Examples
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If I wanted to make myself feel better, I'd tell you to go to hell.
Fiction book (1997) -
Go to hell, you no-good bastard!
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And it's time for him to go to hell.
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You can go to hell.
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I want you to go to hell.
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Um, they want it all white, and with all due respect to them, they can go to hell.
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I'm ready for you to go to hell.
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I beg your pardon, but all of you can go to hell.
Fiction book (1996) -
You go to hell so I don't have to.
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I can't believe you would say that; just go to hell!
Synonyms
441
9.9
A rude word said to show anger or insult someone
26
8.9
Angrily tell someone to go away and never come back
19
9.7
To wish that someone suffers and is punished after they die
1
8.2
To tell someone to go away in a mild, angry way
Rudely say to someone that you want them to go away
To tell someone angrily to go away and leave you alone
Angrily tell someone to go away
Antonyms
How Dismissive
- Offensive
67
9.5
- Offensive
12
9.9
- Informal
4
8.9
709
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
The literal components 'go' + 'hell' do provide a clear figurative image (sending someone to a place of suffering), so a learner who knows the words can infer hostility or strong rejection. However, the expression functions as a conventionalized insult with pragmatic force and register that are not fully predictable from the parts; many languages have similar insults, which aids inference but does not make the phrase fully compositional.
Etymology
Go to hell comes from the strong image of sending someone to 'hell', a very bad and painful place in many religious stories. So when someone says go to hell, they are angrily telling the person to 'go away' or showing they do not care about them.