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hell to pay

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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
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FIFA's bylaws forbid governmental interference in soccer affairs -- no law is above its own -- and those who transgress have hell to pay.
JUVE READY TO MAKE ITALY PAY by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Yet there would have been hell to pay, even a half-century later, had the German government in 2000 celebrated the birth centenary of Heinrich Himmler, the remorseless head of the Nazi secret police, the Gestapo, and the SS and one of the architects of the Holocaust.
Putin's Russia--Stalin lite by Beichman, Arnold / Reason
If Jay and the other country-bashers adopted such an attitude toward an ethnic group like Jews or Mexicans, there would be hell to pay.
Response to Berry. (Letters to the Editor) by The Progressive
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