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go to hell

Idioms  

  1. Also,. Go to everlasting torment, ruin, or perdition. For example, Nancy did not mince words but simply told him to go the devil, or Go to hell, Tom, I won't give you another cent. These phrases are often uttered as angry imperatives to order someone to go away. Hell, devil, and dickens (a euphemism for “devil”) all refer to the underworld, the residence of the devil, from which a person would never return.

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"He said to her: 'You're no longer my sister', and she told him to go to hell."

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

“He has no problem telling his friends like me to go to hell if he does not get what he wants, as he should,” Davis said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 8, 2026

Once I decided that I didn’t care anymore, I just expected for them to kind of allow things just to go to hell around the house — but it was quite the opposite.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 20, 2026

"I should have let him go to hell," Bogosian said on Thursday after the 2017 charge was brought to the public's attention.

From Salon • Feb. 10, 2023

Almost like he knows everything’s about to go to hell.

From "Dear Martin" by Nic Stone

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