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I promptly put the giant jet on automatic pilot and hoped to hell the gadget worked, because I couldn’t fly a kite.
what does "hoped to hell" mean?
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'hoped to hell'
means he is wishing very hard
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hope to hell - more common would be the phrase 'hoped like hell' but both surely mean 'fervently hope'
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I never saw phrase like that, but I think it means to hope intensively
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