the devil to pay
old-fashioneda lot of trouble, difficulty, punishment, anger, etc.:
If he catches you going through his drawers there'll be the devil to pay!
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Accidents and disasters
- a knockout blow idiom
- accident
- accidental
- accidentally
- accidentally on purpose idiom
- banana skin
- calamity
- cataclysm
- catastrophe
- debacle
- disaster area
- disastrous
- emergency
- forest fire
- holocaust
- knockout
- meltdown
- perfect storm
- snafu
- tragedy
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