fire and brimstone

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   (Old Testament) God's means of destroying sinners

   “his sermons were full of fire and brimstone”

   Broaderdamnation

   Old Testament

Questions about fire and brimstone

What does fire and brimstone mean?

fire and brimstone means "(Old Testament) God's means of destroying sinners".

Is fire and brimstone a common word?

fire and brimstone is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.