What is "hammered the hell out of him" mean?
What is "hammered the hell out of him" / "hammer out of him" mean?

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"the hell out of something" is a slang way of exaggerating about something that has been done properly or sometimes if it was overdone.
So they hammered the hell out of the wall = they hammered it too much.
They dug the hell out of the garden = they dug it a lot.

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They surely did not love that poor guy.
I think it expresses that they tortured the guy to obtain information;
I am not really sure.

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If you hammered the hell out of someone, it means you beat them up physically.

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