expressions with the word hell.

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 wanna talk about pronunciation

and also what the word hell means.

So hell is a noun. It's a place.

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

A lot of evil people are supposed to go to hell

So that's just a bit of a background on the word hell

Now here is a word that people might confuse with the word hell.

He'll. He'll

Does anyone know what this means? Well, it's a contraction

You see this apostrophe. It means he will

So these two words have complete different meaning, so don't mix them up.

In terms of pronunciation, you don't wanna mix these two words up

So remember hell rhymes with bell

And he'll is pronounced the same way as…

like a hill. Hill.

Okay, good.

So let's look at the first expression.

I've had a lot of ESL student ask me about this expression.

What the hell! 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 angry, we're frustrated.

But usually with the surprise and anger

So for example,

maybe I'm walking down the street

and all of a sudden, in the sky, I see something fly pass me.

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

So right away, I'm going to say something like "what the hell"

It's surprising, what the hell.

So we use this a lot with surprise

So now let's look at

using hell as what's known as an intensifier.

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

Other interjections are woah or ah. These are interjections

Now we are going to look at hell as what's known as an intensifier,

because hell is intense

So what do I mean by this?

Well, look at the following sentence. Well, it's a question.

What _ happened? What happened?

Now 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 the 4 emotions we use hell with

Instead of just saying "Ah, what happened?"

I can say, "what 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.

So we use this for anger, surprise, frustration

Now let's look at another question

Who _ is that? Who is that?

Well, 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 more polite.

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 when am I gonna 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. When did you get married?

May be I found 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

I might say, "when the hell 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. Where are my keys?

Every morning I wake up and before work, I cannot find my keys

I search 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",

it shows maybe I'm frustrated. I don't know how to fix it

How the hell do I fix this?

So again, we have all of the questions:

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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

are common words like "no", "yes" and "yeah"

Now, if somebody asks me a question.

Say, for instance, if they ask me

do I think George W Bush did a great job as president of the United States

Now for some of you, you'll say "yeah, I think he did a good job"

For other, maybe you don't really care. You say "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!" hell no.

Which is a very strong way of saying no.

Similar to that, if you feel very strongly about something and you wanna say yes

You can say "hell yeah" or "hell yes"

Do you want cake with dinner? Hell yeah

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

Do you want to do your homework? Hell no

So you can use these to intensify yes or no answers

Alright, 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 common meaning to what the hell.

So, it can also mean…

I don't know if you can see this

I don't care.

Which is pretty opposite to what we were just talk about

We were just saying when we add "the hell", it really makes a sentence strong.

It makes a question very strong and shows you're angry or surprised.

Well, depending on our tone of voice, it can also mean I don't care

So for instance, somebody wants to borrow my car.

If I don't really care, I might say,

"what the hell, go ahead. Here's my keys."

Another example is, if somebody…

I have a test on Monday and I should be studying

And somebody says, "do you wanna go to the bar tonight?"

"uh, what the hell, okay."

I should be studying but I don't really care, so what the hell.

Alright, I hope none of you do that, by the way.

Alright, so next, we are going to look at some common idioms and phrases, expressions with the

Alright, so here are 6 expressions.

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

Now the first one I really like. To give someone hell

When you give someone hell… so again here's the verb.

To give someone hell, it's altogether

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 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"

Parents. I told you earlier that my friend had a party one weekend when her parents were out for

And here dad came home early

Her dad gave her hell.

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

Really, really disappointed.

When you give someone hell, it's a bit negative

You're not happy when you give someone hell.

It means you really put them in the 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 #2.

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 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 wanna 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

#3 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 that 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 might say, "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 hell with studying

You don't care about studying, you're going to go party

Or to hell with… you can also use a person

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

#4 for the hell of 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 ask 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 just for fun

So for example, maybe

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? 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

#5 like hell.

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

Usually it has to do with driving, running, studying. So it has to do with a verb.It describes the

So how did you do it? How did you drive?