how, what, why, etc. on earth...
informalC1 used when you are extremely surprised, confused, or angry about something:
How on earth did this happen?
Why on earth didn't you tell me before?
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Linguistics: question words & expressions
- devil
- how about...? idiom
- in God's/heaven's name idiom
- interrogative
- name
- shall
- what the blazes...? idiom
- what's the score? idiom
- what/where/how/why the devil idiom
- whatever
- when
- whence
- whenever
- where
- which
- whither
- whose
- why
- world
- would you like...? idiom
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