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What is "hell's the blame" mean?
22 de nov. de 2024 17:41
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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?
22 de noviembre de 2024
hell's to blame - putting blame on something without specifying people to blame. Used in the general sense.
24 de noviembre de 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).
23 de noviembre de 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?
23 de noviembre de 2024
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