to hell with

1. Also, the hell with. I'm disgusted with, get rid of, as in To hell with that plan; it's ridiculous, or The hell with that so-called genius; he's made a serious mistake in this report. [Early 1900s]

Example Sentences

“It was very conceptual, and it was very strict. If you were going to make art that its intention was to be beautiful — that it was beauty for the sake of the beauty — you probably have a very good very reason that you’re doing that, but entertainment was frowned upon. ... It took probably 15 years to decide, ‘Oh, to hell with it, I’m just going to do what I want to do.’”

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“I actually was one of those Black women that said, ‘To hell with it.

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Characteristic of this situation was the report that deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller pressured ICE agents to arrest at least 3,000 immigrants a day, to hell with a warrant or honoring due process.

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“The Japanese in California should be under armed guard to the last man and woman right now and to hell with habeas corpus until the danger is over,” Pegler wrote.

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“Hezbollah is continuing its war. It’s not willing to stop, and is taking the whole country to hell with it.”

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