the hell with it
(Redirected from the hell with you)
English
[edit]Etymology
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Interjection
[edit]- Forget about it; a disgusted or frustrated dismissal of something.
- I can't understand these directions to building this doghouse because they're so poorly written. The hell with it!
- 2022 October 15, “‘The hell with it’: Elon Musk says SpaceX will fund Starlink internet in Ukraine”, in The Guardian[1]:
- “The hell with it,” the world’s richest man wrote on Twitter. “Even though Starlink is still losing money & other companies are getting billions of taxpayer $, we’ll just keep funding Ukraine govt for free.”
Translations
[edit]forget about it
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