the hell with it

English

Interjection

the hell with it

1. Forget about it; a disgusted or frustrated dismissal of something.

   I can't understand these directions to building this doghouse because they're so poorly written. The hell with it!

   • 2022 October 15, “‘The hell with it’: Elon Musk says SpaceX will fund Starlink internet in Ukraine”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     “The hell with it,” the world’s richest man wrote on Twitter. “Even though Starlink is still losing money & other companies are getting billions of taxpayer $, we’ll just keep funding Ukraine govt for free.”

Translations

forget about it

• French: au diable (fr)
• German: Zur Hölle mit
• Russian: чёрт с ним (čort s nim, literally “devil with it”)
• Walloon: ki ça våye å diåle (wa)