the hell with it

English

Etymology

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Interjection

the hell with it

  1. 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 Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 October 2026:
      “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.”

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