in hell

prepositional phrase

Used as an intensifier to emphasize how unlikely something is.

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Meanings

prepositional phrase
  1. mildlyvulgarUsed as an intensifier to emphasize how unlikely something is.

    I knew very well I had no chance in hell that I could handle this group of people definitively.

    2009, Jan K. Herman, Navy Medicine in Vietnam, page 204
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    There's no way in hell will I be your family's housekeeper while your family has Mike and Mitch living here with them!

    2013, Doris Miller, DIANE D: The Musical Drama, page 218

    As if having a copper rod you don't have a hope in hell of catching flying towards your face isn't traumatic enough, sometimes the teacher would introduce a second rod, so you had to both throw and catch at the same time.

    2021, Sara Gibbs, Drama Queen: One Autistic Woman and a Life of Unhelpful Labels
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APA

in hell. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/in%20hell

MLA

“in hell.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/in%20hell. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “in hell,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/in%20hell.

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