the plague
Adverb
Meaning
the plague (not comparable)
(dated) Synonym of the hell (“expletive”)
Examples
In "The Plague of Doves," a Minnesota Book Award-winner and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the unsolved murder of a farm family haunts the small, white off-reservation town of Pluto, North Dakota.
A professional footballer appears as a character in The Plague and football is discussed in the dialogue.
In 2009, her novel The Plague of Doves was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and also received an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award.
The plague was caused by the same bacteria at the Black Death, Yersinia pestis, which is usually transmitted through the bite of an infected rat flea.
The living conditions are deplorable, human rights for the miners are few, and a disease called "The Plague" is running rampant throughout the colony with no known antidote available—predominantly within the confines of the mine complex.
Žižek, Slavoj, The Plague of Fantasies (London: Verso 1997), p. 39. Lacan also distinguishes between desire and the drives: desire is one and drives are many.