Jenne Phuong
2021-07-06 12:07
Hell's bells old-fashioned informal
Used as an exclamation expressing anger, annoyance, frustration, or surprise
Hell's bells, can you please be careful? Why are you making the same old mistakes all the time?
Oh, hell's bells. I forgot my umbrella. It's pouring rain outside. Could you give me a lift to the bus station?
Oh, hell's bells. He doesn't answer my calls.
To argue with somebody
Said to someone who makes you feel frustrated or annoyed
1. Become angry or lose self-control
2. To plunge into the deep part of a pool
To look or glare very angrily at someone
This expression has been in use since the early 19th century and variously means at great speed as in to go like “hell’s bells” or sometimes used as a mild oath to express. At various times, appendages were added like “hell’s bells and buckets of blood” (which is thought to be a naval variation) and “hell’s bells and cockleshells”, which are both from later during the 19th century.
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