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Hi, my name is Emma and today. We are going to talk about expressions with the word hell

You'll notice. I don't know if you know what the word hell means, but you'll notice some flames

To help you understand the meaning of hell

So first what we're going to do is we're going to talk about

the phrase what the hell and then once we finish that we're going to look at some common idioms and

Phrases that contain the word hell, so let's get started

Before we begin with what the hell I just want to talk about

Pronunciation and also what the word hell means

In certain religions if you're very very bad you go to hell for people who are very good. They go to heaven

Hell is supposed to be a very hot place with a lot of flames with fire

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Lot of evil people are supposed to go to hell

Just a bit of a background on the word hell

Hell now here is a word that people might confuse with the word hell

Does anyone know what this means well?

It's a contraction you see this apostrophe. It means he

So these two words have completely different meanings, so don't mix them up

In terms of pronunciation you don't want to mix these two words up so remember hell

Rhymes with Bell and

Hill is pronounced the same way as

So let's look at the first expression. I have had a lot of ESL students ask me about this expression

What the hell and you'll notice an exclamation mark?

So what does this expression mean? I'm sure if you watch American movies

TV shows friends

Sitcoms you are going to see this a lot. You're going to hear it a lot

Well, what the hell is?

What's known as an interjection?

So we use this to show we are surprised

We're frustrated, but you but usually with the surprise and anger

Maybe I'm walking

down the street and

All of a sudden in the sky. I see something fly past me

Maybe it looks like an alien spaceship. I'm going to be shocked. I'm going to be surprised

So right away. I'm going to say something like what the hell? It's it's surprising. What the hell?

So we use this a lot with surprise

So now let's look at

Hell as what's known as an intensifier?

So in this case, it's used as an interjection

Other interjections are

interjections are

These are interjections

now we are going to look at hell as

what's known as an

Because hell is intense

So what do I mean by this well?

Look at the following sentence. Well. It's a question. What happened?

Say if I want to add emotion to this sentence

I want people to know that I feel something when I'm saying this

Maybe it's surprise. Maybe it's shock anger frustration

Usually those four emotions we use hell with instead of just saying what happened I can say

the hell happened

What the hell happened last night?

I don't know if any of you guys have seen the movie The Hangover

but in that movie three men wake up hungover with no memory of the night before and

So they have this type of moment

What the hell happened last night? They don't remember they're shocked

By what they see around them

another example is I

Had a friend in high school who had a big big party

her parents were away for the weekend or so she thought so she invited a whole bunch of people to her house and

It was a Saturday night her parents were supposed to come home Sunday

They came home Saturday

so when her father walked in to

Their house. He said what the hell is going on here. He wasn't happy

Again, we use this for anger surprise frustration

Now let's look at another question. Who is that?

What if I add the word?

The hell who the hell is that?

It really changes the meaning of this question

before the question was

When I add who the hell is that it's a bit rude

So you don't want to use this with your boss. It is rude

But I'm showing either. I'm angry or surprised so what might I use this well

Maybe I see my best friend's husband at a bar with another woman

Well if I'm shocked I might ask him who the hell is that

When did you get married?

Maybe I find out my friend just got married. Oh, when did you get married?

Well, what if I'm really really surprised or I'm angry because she didn't invite me to the wedding. I might say when

Did you get married?

Again, it's not the nicest thing to say you say it with your friends a lot actually

But it can be taken rudely depending on your tone of voice

Where are my keys? Every morning I wake up and

Before work, I cannot find my keys. I searched the whole house for my keys. I can never find them

Well, maybe one morning. I'm very very stressed out. I'm late for work. I need to get there by a certain time I

Might instead of just saying oh, where are my keys? I might say where the hell?

Are my keys? How do I fix this? Maybe I broke something if I add the hell

Shows maybe I'm frustrated. I don't know how to fix this. How the hell do I fix this?

So again, we have all of the question

Who what when where why oh, we don't have why up here. You can also use it for why why the hell did you do this?

You can use it with any of these question words and what it does again is it shows you're either surprised

shocked frustrated or angry

Now two other things we can intensify our common words like no

Now if somebody asked me a question

say for instance if

They asked me a question

Say for instance if they asked me do I think George W. Bush?

Did a great job as president of the United States now for some of you. They'll say yeah. Yeah, I think he did a good job

For others, maybe you don't really care you say ah no. I don't think he did that good of a job

Well if you're very opinionated like me you might say hell no

Which is a very strong way of saying no?

similar to that

If you feel very strongly about something and you want to say yes, you can say hell yeah, or hell yes

Do you want cake with that with dinner? Hell yeah?

Do you want to go to the movies tonight? Hell yeah?

Do you want to do your homework?

So you can use these to intensify

Yes, and no answers

All right, so we've covered some question words

We've seen what the hell as an interjection

We've looked at

Adding the hell as an intensifier

Well, there's another

Meaning to what the hell

so it can also mean I

Don't know if you can see this I

Which is pretty opposite to what we were just talking about we were just saying

When we add the hell it really makes a sentence strong it makes a question very strong it shows you're angry or surprised

Depending on our tone of voice it can also mean. I don't care

So say for instance somebody wants to borrow my car

If I don't really care, I might say yeah, what the hell go ahead. Here's my keys

Another example is if somebody you know I have a test on on Monday, and I should be studying and

Somebody says do you want to go to the bar tonight?

Yeah, what the hell okay? I should be studying, but I don't really care so what the hell

All right, I hope none of you do that by the way

All right, so next we are going to look at some common idioms and phrases

Expressions with the word hell in them

Alright, so here are six expressions

Some of them are more common than others, but you will hear all of these that have to do with the word hell

Now the first one I really like to give someone hell

When you give someone hell so again, here's the verb to give give someone how it's it's all together

It means to reproach to reprimand to yell at someone

Severely so for example

To really understand this concept

I have a dog if my dog ate some of my jewelry

I have a dog if my dog ate some of my jewelry. I would be very very angry

So I might give my dog hell meaning I might yell at my dog and say why did you do that? You know bad dog?

Told you earlier that my friend had a party one weekend when her parents were out for the weekend and her dad

Came home early

Meaning her dad was very very angry with her yelled at her screamed at her

Really really disciplined her

When you give someone hell, it's a bit negative. You're not happy when you give someone hell it means

You you really?

Put them in their place so for example

Bosses if a boss is very very upset with something you've done

Maybe an employee stole something from their company the boss will give that person hell

So again it means reproach reprimand to yell at someone to scream at someone

Give someone hell

Okay, expression number two

Now this expression go to hell is not polite at all

It's very very very rude, so try not to use it

But you will hear it a lot especially in on movies and TV

Go to hell, so I've drawn a very angry face

If you tell someone to go to hell

You're probably going to be very angry when you say it, and you're pretty much saying

I don't want to deal with you right now get away leave me alone, but it's a very very very

Mean and angry way to say it

Because again hell is not a nice place

It's a place where bad people go so if you're saying go to hell to someone

It's a very strong thing to say

Number three is to hell with it or the hell with it

So you have a choice you can say to hell with it, or you can say the hell with it

Now this expression is often used when you give up on something you decide you don't want to do something anymore

so for example, maybe I've been studying all day, and then I decide I want to go out and party I

To hell with studying so the it is what you change so to hell with studying

I'm going to go party, so you give up on studying to help with studying. You don't care about studying. You're going to go party or

To hell with you can also use a person

Will replace it with her to hell with her

I might say that if I give up on someone. I'm kind of tired of them. I tried to call my friend all weekend

She didn't pick up her phone

To hell with her meaning. I don't care anymore

I'm giving up. I'm not calling her anymore

For the hell with it

I really like this expression actually for the hell of it. What does it mean? Have you ever done something for no reason?

When somebody asks you why did you do that? You don't really have an answer an

Answer is for the hell of it meaning you did it

for either no reason

Or you did it for no reason

For the hell of it meaning you did it for either no reason

Or just for fun

I'm not working tomorrow. I don't have anything to do and I decide to drive

To Montreal I live in Toronto Montreal is five hours away, so maybe one day

I just think I'm going to drive to Montreal today

Somebody might ask me. Why did you do that? You know what were you doing in Montreal?

Well, I drove there for the hell of it meaning. I didn't really have a reason

Maybe I just did it for fun

Number five like hell

When we use like hell, we're talking about doing we're describing

Something usually it has to do with driving running

Studying so it has to do with a verb it describes the verb

So how did you do it?

How did you drive? I drove?

How did you run? I ran like hell so like hell describes the verb

And it means you did it either with great speed so very fast or

Recklessly meaning you weren't careful

So when would we use something like like hell for example?

You have a wife. She's pregnant

She's about to give birth and you're very very stressed out. You're a bit in a panic

How would you drive your car to the hospital?

Do you think you drive at 40 40 kilometers an hour?

No, you're probably going to drive as fast as you can to to get there on time before she gives birth

You drive like hell

Maybe some of you have been late for class before

This this has happened to me before

And if you have a very strict teacher

You don't want to be late. So what do you do?

And how do you run you run like hell?

Meaning you run as fast as you can you just sprint you you run hard

So you run like hell

You could use this with studying

How do you study?

I study like hell means I'm a good student

How do you study? I study like hell meaning I study with great speed. I

Maybe you didn't study

For weeks and your test is tomorrow. How are you going to study for your test? I'm going to study like hell

Number six when hell freezes over

Hell like I said before is a very hot place notice the flames

Well freezing is what happens in the winter

Comes so when hell freezes over mean means hell is going to be covered in ice

Now this is another way of saying never because hell will never freeze over

So this is a fun way to say never

So let's think of some examples

Well, maybe I have a friend

And a guy wants to go on a date with her

Will you go on a date with Bob? We'll call it Bob

Will you go on a date with Bob?

Maybe if she really doesn't like Bob she will say I'll go on a date with Bob when hell freezes over

Hell freezes over which means she will never go on a date with Bob

Will you go see

You know, what's a good movie?

Maybe you hate lord of the rings

I I don't know why I love lord of the rings, but maybe some of you out there thought it was a very boring movie

Somebody will ask you

Will you see the hobbit?

The new lord of the rings movie coming out

You might say I'll see the hobbit

When hell freezes over meaning you will never see that movie

It's a very strong way to say that

So today we have looked at expressions like what the hell?

We've looked at

Interjections what the hell again?

Hell no hell yes

We've also looked at some common expressions with hell

So I hope you come visit our website and take our quiz on these expressions at

And I hope that if I ask you are you going to continue watching our videos your answer will be hell yes