LekhoriLekhoriUsed to warn someone that trouble will occur if that person does something: bad things will happen to.
Woe betide you if you try that with my sister again!
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 subjuncti...
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