hell to pay

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1. (俗語) 大麻烦，严重后果
   • 1912, Mary Roberts Rinehart, “The Miracle”, 出自 Love Stories:

     "When I'm hungry, there's hell to pay if I'm not fed quick."

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   • 1921, Zane Grey, 章號 3, 出自 To The Last Man:

     "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."

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   • 2009年11月16日, Amy Sullivan, “Can Dems Resolve Their Abortion Split?”, 出自 Time, retrieved 28 August 2013:

     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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近义词

• the devil to pay
• the devil to pay, and no pitch hot

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