woe betide

动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˌwəʊ bɪˈtaɪd/    美 /ˌwoʊ bəˈtaɪd/

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. Used to warn someone that trouble will occur if that person does something: bad things will happen to. humorous,idiomatic,literary,transitive
    — Woe betide you if you try that with my sister again!

词形变化

woebetide alternative

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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