hell west and crookedとは 意味・読み方・使い方

副詞

hell west and crooked (not comparable)

1. (US, Australia) All over the place; every which way.
   • 1921, William MacLeod Raine, Gunsight Pass‎^[1], page 52:

     When he and Bob knocked Steelman′s plans hell west and crooked after that yellow skunk George Doble betrayed me to Brad, the boy lost his boots in the brush.

   • 1922, Elbert Hubbard, Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard‎^[2], page 310:

     “ You see, Parson Brown, your stock is all mixed in and scattered hell-west and crooked ways, so you′ll jest have to pick out what′s handy. Is that all right ? ”

   • 1992, Tom Cole, Riding the Wildman Plains, 2003, The Tom Cole Omnibus, Pan Macmillan Australia, page 109,

     24 October 1934 — Wednesday

     Mustering the plant horses all day. Now we have stopped shooting they are scattering about Hell West and Crooked.

   • 2005, Private Albert Franklin Edwards (カナダ用法 Infantry), Two Years in the Ypres Salient, Henry L. Fox (editor), What the Boys Did Over There: Allied Overseas Stories, page 53,

     When it was exploded it blew up the entire town and also blew 61000 Huns “Hell, west and crooked.”

   • 2007, Rowhan Marshall, A Walk on the Wild Side‎^[3], page 45:

     Unfortunately Les arrived by 4WD to check up on our progress, only to find most of us sound asleep in the shade. He gave us a good revving and sent us hell, west and crooked to forage for bush tucker.