adverb phrase
Like hell: lying blue blazes
noun phrase
Hell: What in blue blazes are you up to?
[1800s+; fr the sulfurous blue blazes of hell, an extreme environment]
Id hate like blue blazes to think that he pulled off this job.
Why in blue blazes didn't you stay on that train and keep it from running away from us?
Some of the boys told me afterward that I cursed like blue blazes all the way up.
It left blue blazes ridged with welts, trembling, fright sickened.
What in blue blazes do I pay you ten thousand a year for if it isn't to give me peace?
Well, how in blue blazes did he get so close to the beach and let himself into your clutches?
She never made a move to git up, and as soon as she could git her breath she begun to splutter like blue blazes.
blue blazes planted himself for a sudden105 whirl, stretched his neck as far as possible and worked his upper lip inquiringly.
As for blue blazes, two days later he was sold to a travelling horse-dealer, and departed without any sorrow of farewells.
blue blazes kicked the hostler quite accurately and very suddenly through a window.
