Meaning of rot in hell | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To suffer a fate worse than death.
   figuratively, idiomatic
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rot, in, hell.

Examples

“This is one dangerous bastard. I hope he rots in hell.”

“They got him, and they're going to hang him. I hope he rots in hell.”

“Now it was April 20, 1947, the late Führer's fifty-eighth birthday: I felt utterly secure at Aachen Station. The son-of-a-bitch was rotting in hell, and I was alive, a homeward-bound officer of the U.S. government.”

“I have often wondered why no one ever asks about our earliest ancestors. […] Are we supposed to think that those generations of the human species are rotting in hell, just because they didn't have Christianity, Judaism, Islam, or Buddhism”

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