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hell to pay

noun

Definitions

  1. Very unpleasant consequences

    Very unpleasant consequences; a great deal of trouble.

    • "When I'm hungry, there's hell to pay if I'm not fed quick."
    • "I told him I had sent for you an' when you got heah these slippery, mysterious thieves, whoever they were, would shore have hell to pay."
    • Congressman Bart Stupak of Michigan . . . vows that "there will be hell to pay" if his language gets stripped out of, or weakened in, the final legislation.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA