| 词汇 | devil-to-pay |
| 释义 | the devil to payidiom old-fashioned a lot of trouble, difficulty, punishment, anger, etc.: （会带来）严重后果、困难、惩罚、烦恼等 be the devil to payIf he catches you going through his drawers there'll be the devil to pay!如果他发现你翻他的抽屉，你会有大麻烦的。 Accidents and disasters accident accidental accidentally accidentally on purposeidiom an accident waiting to happenidiom calamity cataclysm cataclysmic cataclysmically catastrophe disastrous disastrously doomsday scenario dumpster fire emergency non-emergency perfect storm post-accident snafu tragedy Examples of the devil to paythe devil to pay If anything happens to that regiment, there will be the deviltopay. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If a tribunal of this kind were set up in mining districts, there would be the deviltopay all over the country. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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