to high heaven | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)Immensely,forcefully.1921December, anonymous author, “Shell-Shocked—And After”, inThe Atlantic Monthly, volume128, page740:But I wishedto high heaventhat my head would quit aching.1929,Francis Lynde,Young Blood, page148:The rear housing on the back tender truck was now blazingto high heaven.1955October 28, Helge E. Nygren, “Statement of Helge E. Nygren[…]”, inPrice-Support Program: Hearings before the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, United States Senate, Eighty-Fourth Congress, First Session[…], volume 3, published1956,page1182:If someone would have the nerve to ask for, say, 10 percent of that amount to be used for the training of this same young man to make a good farmer and citizen out of him, then they would cryto high heavenabout the out-of-reason waste of money.2013[a.1929],Evald Tang Kristensen, translated by Stephen Badman, “Broken on the Wheel”, in John Herbert, editor,Odds and Sods: Stories Taken from the Collection of Evald Tang Kristensen,→ISBN,page36:He stood in the middle of the road and began to complainto high heavenat the top of his voice.2015, Nesarío García,Hoe, Heaven, and Hell: My Boyhood in Rural New Mexico,→ISBN,page38:How can I ever forget one cold night in February while the wind blewto high heaven?

Examples:

EN: Rubber smells to high heaven.
ES: El caucho hiede a perro muerto.
EN: I don't mind tellin' ya you smell to high heaven.
ES: Hemos quedado que podrías ser el padre eterno.
EN: Boy, I've been in some rotten ones, but this smells to high heaven.
ES: Vaya, he estado en unos podridos, pero éste huele mal hasta el cielo.
EN: - They stank to high heaven.
ES: - Me huelen fatal.
EN: He shall march with us, blasting us to high heaven!
ES: Desfilará con nosotros, y lo hará resonar hasta el cielo.
EN: His alibi stinks to high heaven!
ES: Su coartada apesta!
EN: This stinks to high heaven, girl. By God, it stinks!
ES: ¡Este asunto apesta, por Dios!
EN: This whole thing smells to high heaven!
ES: ¡Todo esto resulta muy sospechoso!
EN: He stank to high heaven!
ES: Olía siempre que apestaba.
EN: - One bastard stinks to high heaven.
ES: - Un bastardo se ha ido cogiendo al alto cielo.
EN: Boy, she had lilacs around her house and in the heat it used to stink to high heaven, and I mean to the high heaven.
ES: Muchacho, tenía la casa rodeada de lilas y con el calor el aroma llegaba al Cielo. En verdad, llegaba al Cielo.
EN: And she stinks to high heaven!
ES: Y cuando digo horroroso... - Apesta más que el estiércol.
EN: It stank to high heaven!
ES: ¡Apestaba, por Dios!
EN: There was the bishop with his rod pointing to high heaven like a church candle.
ES: Entonces, estaba el sacristán muy tieso.
EN: - It stinks to high heaven of theater.
ES: Esto está empezando a olerme mal.

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