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hell to pay (不可數)

  1. (俗語)麻煩嚴重後果
    • 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 11月 16, 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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