Torment Phrases

Phrases

• A world of pain
• Agony aunt
• Agony column
• Agony uncle
• All hell broke loose
• As black as the Earl of Hell's waistcoat
• Bat Out Of Hell (Meatloaf song)
• Beat hell out of
• Bully for you
• Bully off
• Bully pulpit
• Burn in hell
• Cat in Hell's chance
• Catch hell
• Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends! (line from the movie 25th Hour)
• Cold day in Hell
• Come hell or high water
• Doubled up in pain
• Drown the pain
• Enhanced interrogation techniques (euphemism for torture)
• Feeling no pain
• For the hell of it
• Get the hell out of Dodge
• Give someone hell
• Go to Hell
• Go to hell in a handbasket
• Hell bent
• Hell cat
• Hell for leather
• Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned
• Hell hole
• Hell is other people (Jean-Paul Sartre quotation)
• Hell on earth
• Hell on wheels
• Hell to pay
• Hell yes!
• Hell's bells and buckets of blood
• Hell's half acre

• Hell's teeth
• I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore! (line from the movie Network)
• It needn't be hell with Nicotinell (Nicotinell advertising slogan)
• Kick hell out of
• Like a bat out of hell
• Like hell
• Neighbours from Hell
• No pain, no gain
• No peace for the wicked
• On pain of death
• One hell of
• Pain barrier
• Pain in the arse
• Pain in the bum
• Pain in the butt
• Pain in the neck
• Pile on the agony
• Play hell
• Private hell
• Prolong the agony
• Raise hell
• Rot in hell
• Shot to hell
• Slap and tickle
• Snowball in hell's chance
• The Agony and The Ecstasy (Charlton Heston movie)
• The Bully Boys (Nickname of Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray and John Belushi)
• The Prince of Pain (Nickname of comedian Richard Lewis)
• The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n (from a poem by Milton)
• The road to hell is paved with good intentions
• Tickle the ivories
• To Hell and back
• Until Hell freezes over
• War is hell
• What fresh hell is this?
• What the hell
• Woe is me
• Woolly Bully (Sam The Sham and The Pharaohs song)