rot in hell

present singular third person rots in hell · participle present rotting in hell · participle past rotted in hell · past rotted in hell

1. figurativelyidiomaticTo suffer a fate worse than death.

   This is one dangerous bastard. I hope he rots in hell.

   2012, Paul Carson, Scalpel, Random House, →ISBN, page 200

   2 more examples

   They got him, and they're going to hang him. I hope he rots in hell.

   2017, Mal Walden, The Newsman: Sixty Years of Television, Brolga Publishing, →ISBN, page 18

   Now it was April 20, 1947, the late Führer's fifty-eighth birthday: I felt utterly secure at Aachen Station. The son-of-a-bitch was rotting in hell, and I was alive, a homeward-bound officer of the U.S. government.

   2019, Gunther Stent, Nazis, Women and Molecular Biology, Routledge, →ISBN, page 290

   Synonyms: burn in hell, go to hell, RIH

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rot, in, hell.

   I have often wondered why no one ever asks about our earliest ancestors. […] Are we supposed to think that those generations of the human species are rotting in hell, just because they didn't have Christianity, Judaism, Islam, or Buddhism

   2015, Frank K. McGarry, To Hell with Terrorism, Dorrance Publishing, →ISBN, page 54