Akademik

• НА ХРЕНА; НА ХРЕН; НА КОЙ XPEH all highly coll, rude

[PrepP; these forms only; adv]

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⇒ used in questions, rhetorical questions, and exclamations to express annoyance, irritation, and/ or a complete lack of interest in s.o. or sth.:

- why the hell (the devil, the frig);

- what the hell (the devil, the frig) (for);

- why in (the) blazes;

- the hell with (s.o. < sth.>).

     ♦ Я сейчас сидел и думал, - продолжал отец, - на кой хрен нам нужна халупа, там же нет ничего хорошего... (Соколов 1). I was just sitting and thinking - continued father,-why the hell do we need that hovel, there's nothing good out there... (1a).

     ♦ "Путается, хочет все объяснить, а на хрена нам его объяснения?" (Искандер 5). "He kept getting tangled up, wanting to explain everything. What the frig did we want with his explanations?" (5a).

     ♦ "Какая баба!.. Ей бы и быть председателем. И на хрена нам кого-то со стороны искать" (Абрамов 1). "...What a woman!... If only she could be Chairwoman, and the hell with searching for one on the outside" (1a).