play hell with

Meaning

1. play (merry) hell with sth / sb

   to affect sth / sb badly

In the movies · 4

• Blackout bomb. Plays hell on electronics.Samaritan2022
• Politics sure plays hell with your poetry.Reds1981
• Nineteen carries, 108 yards, Paul, your boy Chris played a hell of a game.We Are Marshall2006
• But here, they can play wherever the hell they like, 'cause everybody knows them,Belfast2021

Learn it in full scenes

• Belfast2021
  • Buddy Caught in a Street Riot
  • Belfast Builds the Barricades
  • Belfast Family Argues About Religion

From the same entry

• all hell broke loose
• beat hell out of
• for the hell of it
• from hell
• get the hell out
• give hell
• go to hell in a handbasket
• hell for leather
• hell hath no fury
• hell or high water
• Hell's teeth
• like hell