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fire and brimstone

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fire-and-brim⋅stone

[fahyuhr-uhn-brim-stohn]
–adjective
threatening punishment in the hereafter: a fire-and-brimstone sermon.

Origin:
1795–1805
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fire and brimstone  
n.  
  1. The punishment of hell.

  2. Homiletic rhetoric describing or warning of the punishment of hell.

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