the Hill

the Hill

1. A nickname for "Capitol Hill," the location of the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., where Congress convenes. Primarily heard in US. Reporters have flooded the Hill to find out the likelihood of the legislation's success.
2. By extension, the US Congress in general. The former businessman is now headed to the Hill as the newest senator to represent Colorado.
See also: hill
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

the Hill

n. the U.S. Congress; the U.S. capitol building located on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. I really can’t tell what’s happening up on the Hill.
See also: hill
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • Gooner
  • more than you know
  • more than you will ever know
  • more than you can (ever) know
  • piss cutter
  • the White House
  • knee-deep navy
  • go-go
  • honeycakes
  • Bari
References in classic literature
The Lion became quite angry at the laughter caused by the Scarecrow's mishap, and giving a loud roar that echoed like thunder, he dashed up the hill.
Again a head shot swiftly out, and the great Lion went rolling down the hill as if he had been struck by a cannon ball.
straight into the hill; and inside it some one was singing--
The hills and the rocks are rent asunder in places, excavations expose great blocks of building-stone that have lain buried for ages, and all the mean houses and walls of modern Smyrna along the way are spotted white with broken pillars, capitals and fragments of sculptured marble that once adorned the lordly palaces that were the glory of the city in the olden time.
The belief was communicated to the English settlers, and is hardly yet extinct, that a gem, of such immense size as to be seen shining miles away, hangs from a rock over a clear, deep lake, high up among the hills. They who had once beheld its splendor were inthralled with an unutterable yearning to possess it.
I say splashed, for the storm water was sweeping the sand down the hill in a muddy torrent.
They saw the barasingh standing over him, who fled when they came near, and they heard the langurs wailing in the branches, and Sona moaning up the hill; but their Bhagat was dead, sitting cross-legged, his back against a tree, his crutch under his armpit, and his face turned to the north-east.
There was a steaming mist in all the hollows, and it had roamed in its forlornness up the hill, like an evil spirit, seeking rest and finding none.
What was she thinking of as she wound up the hill? Perhaps she had found complete repose without him, and had ceased to feel any need of his love.
No sooner had he done so than his legs felt as sound and strong as they had been before, and Ferko thanked the kind fate that had led him to the hill where he had overheard the ravens' conversation.
Count Ostermann with his suite rode up behind the squadron, halted, spoke to the commander of the regiment, and rode up the hill to the guns.
The lama dropped to his knees, half-stunned; the coolies under their loads fled up the hill as fast as plainsmen run aross the level.
With utmost caution she crept warily toward the crest of the hill, taking advantage of every natural screen that the landscape afforded to conceal her approach from possible observers ahead, while momentarily she cast quick glances rearward lest she be taken by surprise from that quarter.
On one hand it is overhung by the crags of the hill, on the other by an old graveyard.
Dwarf pines were numerous upon the hills, and partly fringed the outer verge of the intermediate hollow, within which there was nothing but the brown grass of October, and here and there a tree trunk that had fallen long ago, and lay mouldering with no green successsor from its roots.