| 词组 | hell to pay |
| 释义 | Idiom hell to pay serious problems.There will be hell to pay when you get back home. Usage notes: used to describe the result of an action hell to payVery negative or severe consequences. There will be hell to pay if you come home after curfew yet again. hell to payGreat trouble, as in If we're wrong there'll be hell to pay. [c. 1800] there'll be hell to payYou can say that there'll be hell to pay to warn someone that someone will be very angry if a particular thing happens or if it does not happen. If I forget Nicole's book, there'll be hell to pay. You know what she's like. Next thing she'll find out about that night in Rugby and there'll be hell to pay. Note: In British English, you can also say that there'll be merry hell to pay. `Drop that!' she snarled at Kenny. `If the girls see it, there'll be merry hell to pay!' ˈhell/the ˈdevil to pay(informal) a lot of trouble: There’ll be hell to pay when your father sees that broken window.hell to pay Great trouble: If we're wrong, there'll be hell to pay. hell to pay, there'll beThe consequences will be terrible; there’ll be a heavy penalty. Originating about 1800, this term once meant discord or severe trouble. The OED quotes a letter by Lord Paget (1807): “There has been hell to pay between the Dukes of York and Cumberland.” |
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