the ... from hell
Frequency: 7.03.2 per million words
An informal phrase to describe someone or something that is extremely difficult or unpleasant (e.g., 'the neighbor from hell').
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- She's the girlfriend from hell—I don't know why he puts up with her.
- We had the holiday from hell last year; it rained every single day.
- My first internship was the job from hell, with an impossible boss and endless unpaid overtime.
- This old laptop is the computer from hell; it crashes every five minutes.
- They finally moved to escape the neighbors from hell who partied all night.
- He described his cross-country bus trip as the journey from hell.
- Trying to assemble this flat-pack furniture has been the task from hell.
- She spent the entire afternoon on the phone with the customer service agent from hell.
- Everyone agreed it was the meeting from hell, achieving nothing in three hours.
- I once had the roommate from hell who never cleaned and always ate my food.