Author Topic: will hell break lose!  (Read 5510 times)

clementejak

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will hell break lose!
« on: May 29, 2012, 06:01:52 AM »
This was posted in a blog site;

"will hell break lose" seems to me it is not right.

It should be "will hell break loose" isn't it?

Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Thanks

Joe Carillo

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Re: will hell break lose!
« Reply #1 on: May 29, 2012, 06:26:20 AM »
You’re absolutely right! The statement “will hell break lose” mistakenly uses the verb “lose,” which means “to be deprived of,” for the adjective “loose,” which means “free from restraint” or “disconnected.” That statement should therefore be corrected to “will hell break loose.”

This could be simply a typographical error or a case of misspelling, but there’s a big world of difference between “lose” and “loose” grammatically and semantically.