the hell sb is/does, etc.
US informalused to tell someone that you do not believe what they have said or that you will not allow them to do what they want:
"I don't need your advice, Gene, I know what's good for me." "The hell you do!"
"He says he won't come." "The hell he won't!"
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Denying & contradicting
- abnegate
- answer
- answer (sb) back
- change your tune idiom
- defensive
- denial
- deny
- disagree
- Dutchman
- hell
- I'm a Dutchman idiom
- make (a) nonsense of sth idiom
- nonsense
- oxymoron
- rebut
- rebuttal
- speak for yourself idiom
- stand
- stand sth on its head idiom
- talk
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