as hell

idiom

informal + somewhat impolite

—used to make a statement more forceful

They were mad as hell.

We've been working as hard as hell to finish on schedule.

"Can you finish on schedule?" "We'll sure as hell try."

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Tedesco came in to this conclave mad as hell, similar to how The Brutalist made a huge splash early in its awards campaign, receiving major awards with critics’ voting bodies and at the Globes. —

Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 23 Jan. 2025 Related Donkey Kong Country Returns is a little easier on the Switch — but still hard as hell Crediting is an industry-wide issue, and this isn’t the first time Nintendo has come under scrutiny for its crediting decisions. —

Jay Peters, The Verge, 17 Jan. 2025 Georgetown, Yale, and that kind of thing, smart as hell. —

USA TODAY, 8 Jan. 2025 Those bathroom floors had better be heated as hell, and that bathroom marble had better be Carrara. —

Nora Deligter, Curbed, 3 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for as hell