rot in hell

English

Verb

rot in hell (third-person singular simple present rots in hell, present participle rotting in hell, simple past and past participle rotted in hell)

1. (figurative, idiomatic) To suffer a fate worse than death.
   • 2012, Paul Carson, Scalpel, Random House, →ISBN, page 200:

     This is one dangerous bastard. I hope he rots in hell.

   • 2017, Mal Walden, The Newsman: Sixty Years of Television, Brolga Publishing, →ISBN, page 18:

     They got him, and they're going to hang him. I hope he rots in hell.

   • 2019, Gunther Stent, Nazis, Women and Molecular Biology, Routledge, →ISBN, page 290:

     Now it was April 20, 1947, the late Führer's fifty-eighth birthday: I felt utterly secure at Aachen Station. The son-of-a-bitch was rotting in hell, and I was alive, a homeward-bound officer of the U.S. government.

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rot,‎ in,‎ hell.
   • 2015, Frank K. McGarry, To Hell with Terrorism, Dorrance Publishing, →ISBN, page 54:

     I have often wondered why no one ever asks about our earliest ancestors. […] Are we supposed to think that those generations of the human species are rotting in hell, just because they didn't have Christianity, Judaism, Islam, or Buddhism