I heard the following sentence in a movie, named LAWMAN, please help me with it. A friend of a cowboy told him" You'd derive a man to hell, wouldn't you, Jered?" I suppose that this means he would

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I heard the following sentence in a movie, named LAWMAN, please help me with it. A friend of a cowboy told him" You'd derive a man to hell, wouldn't you, Jered?" I suppose that this means he would follow a man to catch him despite all difficulties. The question for me is can I say, "derive the gaol to hell"? meaning follow your gaol despite all difficulties .

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I heard the following sentence in a movie, named LAWMAN, please help me with it.

A friend of a cowboy told him " You'd drive a man to hell, wouldn't you, Jered?" I suppose that this means he would follow a man to catch him despite all difficulties. The question for me is, can I say, "drive the goal to hell"? meaning follow your goal despite all difficulties.

You will not be well understood if you say that. All the words are English and the grammar is OK, but the meaning is obscure or there is no meaning, sadly. The initial "drive a man to hell" is not really approving, nor focusing on the persistence of Jered, so far as I can tell. The meaning I'd take is more nuanced: "you are very persistent, Jered, and in your persistence you overlook the humanity of the victim you are hunting, to the point of forcing his death and damnation." I don't think you'd be well advised to adopt "drive something to hell" as an idiom for regular use.

When I searched google for "drive him to hell" I found very few pages with this exact phrase, and many of those were explicitly religious in content.

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I think you might be confusing "gaol", an old British spelling of "jail", with the word "goal" meaning an objective or aim. You wouldn't say you'd drive a goal to hell. See Amit's explanation of "drive" above.

I think it should be "drive" and not "derive".It's use in the same sense as "He will drive me mad" meaning that he creates situations for me that force me to lose my mind. "Drive me to hell" would mean to create situations that are giving me a hard time almost as if I was in hell.

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