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What is "hell's the blame" mean?
Nov 22, 2024 5:41 PM
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I've never heard that. Where did you hear or read it?
Could it be 'He's to blame' (meaning 'It's his fault'), for instance?
November 22, 2024
hell's to blame - putting blame on something without specifying people to blame. Used in the general sense.
November 24, 2024
Ah well, poetic licence then! It doesn't make a great deal of sense in ordinary spoken English, and even in the song, it is ambiguous. It could mean 'The blame is hell' (an inversion, which is more common in poetry than in prose).
November 23, 2024
Although, if I'd been writing that song, I would have thought 'Hell's to blame' would have fitted in nicely there, but who knows?
November 23, 2024
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