Inf. an exclamation of anger or surprise. (Use caution with hell.)Alice: Your pants are torn in back. John: Oh, hell's bells! What will happen next?Bill: Well, Jane, looks like you just flunked calculus. Jane: Hell's bells and buckets of blood! What do I do now?
Hell's bells!
(old-fashioned)
something that you say when you are very surprised or annoyed Hell's bells, the washing machine's overflowing again!