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Idiom a living hell an extremely unpleasant place or experience.She worked as a substitute teacher in a living hell of a public high school.
idioma living hellused about a place or situation that is extremely unpleasant, or where people suffer a lot:By lunchtime, everyone would know how I had screwed up, and then they would make my life a living hell.It has always been his philosophy that life is a living hell with a few laughs thrown in to break the monotony.
living hellAn extremely unpleasant situation. She described her marriage to her alcoholic husband as a living hell. So many bad things happened to me that year that it was a living hell. a living hell COMMON If a situation or a place is a living hell, it is extremely unpleasant. School is a living hell for some children. Their marriage had become a living hell. living hell, aA condition or place of acute misery and distress. This expression uses hell in the sense of the afterworld’s place of eternal torment. “Even after the divorce was final, he made her life a living hell.” Also put as hell on earth, it appears in such contexts as “Jungle warfare is a true hell on earth.” |