in hell

Used as an intensifier to emphasize how unlikely something is.

Prepositional phrase

  1. Used as an intensifier to emphasize how unlikely something is.
    • I knew very well I had no chance in hell that I could handle this group of people definitively. - 2009, Jan K. Herman, Navy Medicine in Vietnam, page 204:
    • There's no way in hell will I be your family's housekeeper while your family has Mike and Mitch living here with them! - 2013, Doris Miller, DIANE D: The Musical Drama, page 218:
    • As if having a copper rod you don't have a hope in hell of catching flying towards your face isn't traumatic enough, sometimes the teacher would introduce a second rod, so you had to both throw and catch at the same...