fire and brimstone

fire and brimstone

1. noun The misery that one faces in hell. Unrepentant criminals better prepare themselves for fire and brimstone after death.
2. noun Intense speech about the misery that one faces in hell. You're just scaring the kids with all this fire and brimstone.
3. adjective Describing such speech. You're just scaring the kids with all this fire and brimstone talk.
See also: and, fire
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

fire and brimstone

the supposed torments of hell.
In the Bible, fire and brimstone are the means of divine punishment for the wicked (see, for example, Genesis 19:24 or Revelation 21:8). Brimstone (from the Old English word brynstan meaning ‘burning stone’) is an archaic word for ‘sulphur’ and is now rarely found outside this phrase.
See also: and, fire
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
See also:
  • angle
  • angling
  • high
  • high, wide, and handsome
  • wear (one's) apron high
  • bummer
  • swag
  • turd
References in periodicals archive
He said, 'Fire and brimstone doesn't get the punters in.
Sometimes that's just fine: dirges like "You Must Be Certain of the Devil" and "There Are No More Tickets to the Funeral" boom with Old Testament fire and brimstone, even on paper.
The fire and brimstone of fundamentalist Christianity seemed to underlie the sentiments of the delegates.
Smooth-it-away leaves the other passengers and divulges his true identity by breathing fire and brimstone. The narrator awakens and realizes, with great relief, that it has all been a dream.
But you have to understand that when you're on the pitch you can't go all fire and brimstone.
Episode 6, "Fire and Brimstone," airs this Sunday, Nov.
Does anyone seriously believe a fire and brimstone unionist like Ian Paisley would have welcomed such an arrangement if there was the slightest chance of it leading to the breakup of the UK?
It plays a fairly ordinary game of cricket but the fire and brimstone Ashes atmosphere is completely lacking due to the generic, cut-out crowd, dull commentary, and laughable player likenesses.
Sandler: I think our sense of evangelism is someone thumping a Bible, screaming about fire and brimstone and that sort of thing.
Down here the opposition came mainly from churches and chapels, thousands praying to Keep Sunday Holy, preachers predicting something akin to fire and brimstone from above if their congregations did not turn out to shout NO.
Veteran second-row Malcolm O'Kelly has warned Wales they will be met with the traditional Irish fire and brimstone when their RBS 6 Nations Championship campaign resume at Lansdowne Road on Sunday.
I admire churches that understand that people need to first exist and not be impoverished, instead of preaching fire and brimstone.
Bear live witness to fire and brimstone and tech fluidity.
But before Abraham can find even ten, fire and brimstone are rained down, and Abraham and his family only narrowly escape.
But perhaps, on this occasion, a bit of fire and brimstone from the Church wouldn't have gone amiss.