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A world of
pain
Agony
aunt
Agony
column
Agony
uncle
All
hell
broke loose
All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't
hurt
( Charles M. Schulz quotation )
As black as the Earl of Hell's waistcoat
Bat Out Of
Hell
( Meatloaf song )
Beat
hell
out of
Beelzebub has the
devil
for a sideboard ( misheard lyric from Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody )
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Better the
Devil
you know than the
Devil
you don't
Between the
Devil
and the deep blue sea
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Burn in
hell
Cat in Hell's chance
Catch
hell
Champagne for my real friends, real
pain
for my sham friends! ( line from the movie 25th Hour )
Chinese burn
Cold day in
Hell
Come
hell
or high water
Cruel and unusual punishment
Devil
in Disguise ( Elvis Presley song )
Devil
may care
Do You Really Want to
Hurt
Me ( Culture Club song )
Don't cry before you're
hurt
Doubled up in
pain
Drown the
pain
Enhanced interrogation techniques ( euphemism for torture )
Every man for himself and the
devil
take the hindmost
Feeling no
pain
For the
hell
of it
Full of the
devil
Get the
hell
out of Dodge
Give someone
hell
Give the
Devil
his due
Go to
Hell
Go to
hell
in a handbasket
Go to the
Devil
Hanged, drawn and quartered
Haul over the coals
He must needs go that the
Devil
drives
He who sups with the
Devil
should use a long spoon
He will give the
Devil
his due
Heap
abuse
on
Hell
bent
Hell
cat
Hell
for leather
Hell
hath no fury like a woman scorned
Hell
hole
Hell
is other people ( Jean-Paul Sartre quotation )
Hell
on earth
Hell
on wheels
Hell
to pay
Hell
yes!
Hell's bells and buckets of blood
Hell's half acre
Hell's teeth
Hurt
feelings
Hurt
pride
I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore! ( line from the movie Network )
In league with the
Devil
It needn't be
hell
with Nicotinell ( Nicotinell advertising slogan )
It's all fun and games until somebody gets
hurt
Kick
hell
out of
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and
suffering
- and it's all over much too soon ( Woody Allen line )
Like a bat out of
hell
Like
hell
Like the
devil
Little
devil
Long
suffering
Luck of the
Devil
Make a deal with the
devil
Mental cruelty
Needs must when the
Devil
drives
Neighbours from
Hell
No pain, no gain
On
pain
of death
One
hell
of
Pain
barrier
Pain
in the arse
Pain
in the bum
Pain
in the butt
Pain
in the neck
Parsley seed goes nine times to the
devil
Pile on the
agony
Play devil's advocate
Play
hell
Private
hell
Prolong the
agony
Put the
hurt
on
Raise
hell
Raise the
devil
Rot in
hell
Sell your soul to the
devil
Shot to
hell
Skin alive
Snowball in hell's chance
Son of a whore ( a bastard, or a general term of
abuse
)
Speak of the
devil
Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never
hurt
me
Suffering
succotash
Supping with the
Devil
Sympathy For The
Devil
( Rolling Stones song )
Talk of the
Devil
Talk of the Devil, and he is bound to appear
Tell the truth and shame the
Devil
The Adventure of the Devil's Foot ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The
Agony
and The Ecstasy ( Charlton Heston movie )
The Angel of Death ( Nickname of Josef Mengele )
The Big
Hurt
( Nickname of Frank Thomas )
The
Devil
Wears Prada ( Lauren Weisberger book )
The
Devil
finds work for idle hands to do
The
Devil
has all the best tunes
The
Devil
is in the detail
The
Devil
made me do it
The
Devil
take the hindmost
The
Devil
take you
The
Devil
to pay
The Devil's Disciple ( Bernard Shaw play and Burt Lancaster movie )
The Elephant Man ( John
Hurt
/ Anthony Hopkins / David Lynch movie )
The Pazmanian
Devil
( Nickname of Vinny Paz )
The Prince of
Pain
( Nickname of comedian Richard Lewis )
The
devil
looks after his own
The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make a Heav'n of Hell, a
Hell
of Heav'n ( from a poem by Milton )
The road to
hell
is paved with good intentions
To
Hell
and back
Until
Hell
freezes over
War is
hell
We have ways of making you talk
What fresh
hell
is this?
What the devil?
What the
hell
What you don't know can't
hurt
you
While you live, tell truth and shame the Devil!
You only
hurt
the one you love