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have the devil to pay
(redirected from have hell to pay)

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have the devil to pay and have hell to pay
Inf. to have a great deal of trouble. (Use hell with caution.) If you cheat on your income taxes, you'll have the devil to pay. I came home after three in the morning and had hell to pay.
See also: devil, have, pay


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If they reject the will of the voters and jam Hillary down their throats, they will have hell to pay, just as the Democratic Party elite did in the streets of Chicago in 1968.
FIFA's bylaws forbid governmental interference in soccer affairs -- no law is above its own -- and those who transgress have hell to pay.
If either of those characters gets to 1600 Pennsylvania, business, not only in LA, will have hell to pay.
 
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