Timeline for What are the implied words in front of "to hell with them" in this sentence? "They want me to stop, but to hell with them! I'll do what I want to do!"
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| Sep 19, 2020 at 16:26 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | ...I suppose that as usual, there's an implied subject You (the addressee) and an implied verb be in Off to bed! And I further suppose that optional with you there implies the addressee is being told to take himself off / away. But I suspect what we've got here is a "frozen form" that doesn't reflect normal current syntax in English. | |
| Sep 19, 2020 at 16:21 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | Structurally similar, less profanely, [Off] to bed [with you]! is a very common imperative Note that although we're all perfectly familiar with it, I don't suppose many native speakers could give you a meaningful analysis of the "syntax" of, for example, Be off with you! (which is becoming very popular lately). | |
| Sep 19, 2020 at 15:56 | answer | added | Jack O'Flaherty | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 19, 2020 at 15:29 | history | asked | Den Allan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |