Torture Phrases

Phrases

• A world of pain
• Agony aunt
• Agony column
• Agony uncle
• All hell broke loose
• All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt (Charles M. Schulz quotation)
• As black as the Earl of Hell's waistcoat
• Bat Out Of Hell (Meatloaf song)
• Beat hell out of
• Beelzebub has the devil for a sideboard (misheard lyric from Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody)
• Better the Devil you know than the Devil you don't
• Between the Devil and the deep blue sea
• 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)
• Chinese burn
• Cold day in Hell
• Come hell or high water
• Cruel and unusual punishment
• Devil in Disguise (Elvis Presley song)
• Devil may care
• Do You Really Want to Hurt Me (Culture Club song)
• Don't cry before you're hurt
• Doubled up in pain
• Drown the pain
• Enhanced interrogation techniques (euphemism for torture)
• Every man for himself and the devil take the hindmost
• Feeling no pain
• For the hell of it
• Full of the devil
• Get the hell out of Dodge
• Give someone hell
• Give the Devil his due
• Go to Hell
• Go to hell in a handbasket
• Go to the Devil
• Hanged, drawn and quartered
• Haul over the coals
• He must needs go that the Devil drives
• He who sups with the Devil should use a long spoon
• He will give the Devil his due
• Heap abuse on
• 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
• Hurt feelings
• Hurt pride
• I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore! (line from the movie Network)
• In league with the Devil
• It needn't be hell with Nicotinell (Nicotinell advertising slogan)
• It's all fun and games until somebody gets hurt
• Kick hell out of
• Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon (Woody Allen line)
• Like a bat out of hell
• Like hell
• Like the devil

• Little devil
• Long suffering
• Luck of the Devil
• Make a deal with the devil
• Mental cruelty
• Needs must when the Devil drives
• Neighbours from Hell
• No pain, no gain
• 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
• Parsley seed goes nine times to the devil
• Pile on the agony
• Play devil's advocate
• Play hell
• Private hell
• Prolong the agony
• Put the hurt on
• Raise hell
• Raise the devil
• Rot in hell
• Sell your soul to the devil
• Shot to hell
• Skin alive
• Snowball in hell's chance
• Son of a whore (a bastard, or a general term of abuse)
• Speak of the devil
• Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me
• Suffering succotash
• Supping with the Devil
• Sympathy For The Devil (Rolling Stones song)
• Talk of the Devil
• Talk of the Devil, and he is bound to appear
• Tell the truth and shame the Devil
• The Adventure of the Devil's Foot (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Agony and The Ecstasy (Charlton Heston movie)
• The Angel of Death (Nickname of Josef Mengele)
• The Big Hurt (Nickname of Frank Thomas)
• The Devil Wears Prada (Lauren Weisberger book)
• The Devil finds work for idle hands to do
• The Devil has all the best tunes
• The Devil is in the detail
• The Devil made me do it
• The Devil take the hindmost
• The Devil take you
• The Devil to pay
• The Devil's Disciple (Bernard Shaw play and Burt Lancaster movie)
• The Elephant Man (John Hurt / Anthony Hopkins / David Lynch movie)
• The Pazmanian Devil (Nickname of Vinny Paz)
• The Prince of Pain (Nickname of comedian Richard Lewis)
• The devil looks after his own
• 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
• To Hell and back
• Until Hell freezes over
• War is hell
• We have ways of making you talk
• What fresh hell is this?
• What the devil?
• What the hell
• What you don't know can't hurt you
• While you live, tell truth and shame the Devil!
• You only hurt the one you love