An emphatic American idiom meaning an enormous stretch of territory, or everywhere — often used to describe an exhausting, fruitless search or a vast, disorganized mess.
An emphatic American idiom meaning an enormous stretch of territory, or everywhere — often used to describe an exhausting, fruitless search or a vast, disorganized mess. Saying you've 'looked through hell and half of Georgia' means you've searched everywhere imaginable and then some. The phrase pairs the hyperbolic idea of hell with the sprawling geography of Georgia to conjure maximum scale and frustration.
I've been through hell and half of Georgia looking for that receipt, and it was in my jacket pocket the whole time.
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(idiomatic, US) A very large region; everywhere.
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