caught hell

Verb

catch hell (third-person singular simple present catches hell, present participle catching hell, simple past and past participle caught hell)

1. (idiomatic, slang) To be severely reprimanded, punished, or beaten.
   • It’s not exactly a Pixar-level examination of complicated family dynamics, and the movie still has plenty of knuckled-headed, Sandler-style boys-will-be-dumbasses shtick: Children everywhere will surely thrill to the sub-subplot about Frank catching hell about his gambling problem from his wife...2018 July 10, Jesse Hassenger, “Improbably but amusingly, Hotel Transylvania 3 notches a series best”, in The Onion AV Club, archived from the original on 09 Jul 2018

   Synonyms:

   catch it, cop it, get it

2. (idiomatic, slang, uncommon) To experience troubling or difficult times.
   • The family on the other side of town / Would catch hell without a ghetto around / In every city you find the same thing going down / Harlem is the capital of every ghetto town / Help me sing it1972, Bobby Womack, “Across 110th Street”, in Across 110th Street