what the hell
informalDefinition
› said when you suddenly realize that your plan is not important to you and that you will do something else: I was supposed to be working this evening but what the hell - I'll see you in the pub in half an hour.Expressions meaning 'it isn't important to me'
(Definition of what the hell from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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what pronoun, exclamation (QUESTION)
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what sb says, goes idiom
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what with one thing and another idiom
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