go through hell
Experience extreme suffering
To go through hell is to endure extreme suffering, hardship, or difficulty: She went through hell during the divorce, We went through hell trying to get the permits approved.
The phrase invokes hell as the ultimate place of torment to emphasize how painful or arduous an experience was.
Sometimes intensified: go through hell and back.
- undergoBe subjected to
- trial by fireTest through difficult experience
- anguishIntense mental suffering
- miseryIntense prolonged distress
- despairTotal absence of hope
heartbreak · dark times · persecution · oppression · turmoil · trauma · crisis · rough patch · perseverance · injury · catastrophe · injustice · deprivation · fortitude · hit rock bottom · disaster · pain · grief
go through hellbreeze through
Accomplish with effortless ease
sail through · have it easy · walk in the park · have it made · skate by
through, thorough, thoroughly, thoroughness, hell, hells, hellish, hellishly