- determined to achieve something at all costs.
- very determined to do something, especially something that other people do not approve of.
- If you say that someone is hell-bent on doing something, you are emphasizing that they are determined to do it, even if this causes problems or difficulties for other people.
How about "hell-bent for leather" Both mean too fast for safety.
The duration of Hell Bent is 3000.0 seconds.
"Head Bent for Leather" is probably a mondegreen of the phrase "Hell-bent for leather". Hell bent for leather seems to be a very recent usage in which two phrases: hell-bent and hell for leather have been run together. The bent in hell-bent means "determined" or "resolute", as in "bent on revenge", so hell-bent means "intent on going to hell". Hell for leather, on the other hand, means "fast". It occurs twice (1889, 1893) in Kipling's stories of the British Army in India. In both cases it refers to horse-riding and leather probably refers to the saddle. It may have originated as Army slang or it could possibly have been one of Kipling's inventions. For the meaning, we can only suggest that you ask the next person who uses it in conversation with you. It is understood to mean "as fast as possible", having retained the meaning of hell for leather with the extraneous bent. Source: http://www.takeourword.com/TOW154/page2.html
Hell Bent was created on 1918-07-06.
The duration of Hell-Bent for Election is 780.0 seconds.
Hell-Bent for Election was created in 1944-07.
Hell Bent for Letters was created on 2006-05-23.
The duration of Hell Bent for Leather - film - is 1.37 hours.
Hell Bent for Leather - film - was created on 1960-02-01.
Hell Bent for Love - 1934 was released on: USA: 19 May 1934
Judas Priest released Killing Machine/Hell Bent for Leather in 1979.
Hell Bent for Frisco - 1931 is rated/received certificates of: USA:Passed (National Board of Review)