go to hell

English

Etymology

The expression dates back to Old English, where it literally meant to go to Hēl, who was the Goddess of Hell (also called Hēl). It was not an insult.

Verb

go to hell (third-person singular simple present goes to hell, present participle going to hell, simple past went to hell, past participle gone to hell)

1. To go out the window; be ruined; be now useless.

   Well, that plan has gone to hell.

2. Literally, go to Hell.

   Why did Nancy do that to Jake? She can go to hell.

3. (in imperative) Expression of anger directed at someone in contempt, especially after that individual had done something very wrong.

   You want me to voluntarily work the weekend without pay? Go to hell!

Synonyms

• (to be ruined or useless): go out the window, go to pot
• (go to Hell): go to Halifax
• (in imperative): get fucked

Translations

Go "out the window", to be ruined, now useless

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 失效 (zh) (shixiao)

• Finnish: mennä päin helvettiä
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• Portuguese: ir por água abaixo, ir ralo abaixo
• Swedish: gå åt helvete

literally, go to Hell

• Finnish: joutua helvettiin
• French: aller en enfer (fr)
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• Portuguese: ir para o inferno
• Swedish: dra åt helvete (sv)

interjection

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 去死吧 (qù sǐ ba)

• Finnish: painu helvettiin
• French: aller se faire voir (fr)
• Greek: άντε στο διάολο (ánte sto diáolo)
• Hebrew: תלך לגיהנום (teléj lagianúm)
• Hungarian: menj a pokolba
• Macedonian: о́ди по ѓаво́лите (ódi po ǵavólite) (literally "go to the devils")
• Norwegian: dra til helvete (no)
• Portuguese: vá/vai para o inferno!
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• Romanian: du-te dracului
• Russian: пошёл к чёрту (pošól k čórtu) (to a man), пошла́ к чёрту (pošlá k čórtu) (to a woman), пошли́ к чёрту (pošlí k čórtu) (to a group)
• Serbo-Croatian: ideš u pakao n
• Spanish: vete al infierno
• Swedish: dra åt helvete (sv)
• Turkish: cehenneme git
• Yiddish: גײ אין דר׳ערד (gey in dr'erd)