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Meaning of the plague | Babel Free

Adverb CEFR B2

Definitions

Synonym of the hell (“expletive”).

dated, not-comparable

Examples

“Money, money, is the matter, madam. We have got no money. What the plague do you send me of your fool's errand for?”
“[…] and that rancid, raw-boned parson, Gillespie—how the plague did they pick him up?—one of the mutes told Bob it was he.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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