woe betide

短语

发音

UK /ˌwəʊ bɪˈtaɪd/
US /ˌwoʊ bəˈtaɪd/
AU

别名

woebetide

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    Used to warn someone that trouble will occur if that person does something: bad things will happen to.

    幽默 习语 文学 及物

    Woe betide you if you try that with my sister again!

词源

From Early Modern English woe (“great sadness or distress; calamity, trouble”) + betide (“to happen to, befall”), formerly used to decry a person’s actions. Grammatically, the verb is in the subjunctive mood.

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