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HELL TO PAY

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• HELL TO PAY (noun)
The noun HELL TO PAY has 1 sense:

1. dire consequences

Familiarity information: HELL TO PAY used as a noun is very rare.

• HELL TO PAY (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Dire consequences

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Context example:

when the pig ran away there was hell to pay

Hypernyms ("hell to pay" is a kind of...):

consequence; import; moment (having important effects or influence)

"All's fair in love and war."
(English proverb)
"One swallow doesn't make a spring."
(Bulgarian proverb)
"A mountain won't get to a mountain, but a human will get to a human."
(Armenian proverb)
"When two dogs fight over a bone, a third one carries it away."
(Dutch proverb)

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