catch hell

catch hell

To receive the brunt of another's anger, often through scolding. If I get home past curfew again, I'm really going to catch hell from my parents!
See also: catch, hell
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

catch hell (about someone or something)

 and get hell (about someone or something); catch hell (for something)
to be scolded (about someone or something). This isn't the first time Bill's caught hell about his drinking. We knew we were gonna catch hell when Ma saw how we'd ruined her garden. Somebody is going to catch hell for this!
See also: catch, hell
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • get hell
  • hell
  • catch the devil
  • get the devil
  • keep off (one's) back
  • keep off back
  • under the thumb of (someone)
  • under thumb
  • under somebody's thumb
  • under someone’s thumb
References in periodicals archive
Bone Broke and Catch Hell Blues are gut-teral and timeless, but You Don't Know What Love Is (You Just Do What You're Told), a simply stunning song, shows that the band can now take their place at American music's very small top table.
A Martyr For My Love For You broods magnificently, the sweetly addictive Little Cream Soda gives surf rock a sheer metal edge, while the squealing guitar on Catch Hell Blues sounds like ancient bluesmen Lightning Hopkins and Elmore James duelling on one-string axes.
In the paradiegesis opening the speech, Malcolm X draws heavily upon several of his favorite rhetorical techniques, including epimone and palilogia, repeating his questions and phrases in order to create devastating antitheses, as in this example: "You don't catch hell because you're a Baptist, and you don't catch hell because you're a Methodist....
So check this out: If I know you have a bulletproof missile defense system, plus I know that my missile can be traced back to me, then I must also know that I will catch hell from several hundred warheads exploding on my homeland by way of retaliation.
And any member of Congress who resists the Istook altar call is certain to catch hell from the Religious Right's minions.
"We knew we would catch hell for the [obit] policy, but we would rather do that then lay people off," Macko explained.