woe betide
Misfortune will follow
Woe betide is a warning that trouble or misfortune will come to someone: Woe betide anyone who crosses her.
The phrase is somewhat archaic or literary, often used with ironic exaggeration to threaten consequences for minor offenses: Woe betide the student who forgets their homework.
- doomUnavoidable grim fate
- bewareExercise vigilant caution
- calamitySevere misfortune or disaster
- misfortuneAdverse circumstance or event
- curseInvoked harm through words
trouble · God forbid · hell to pay · catastrophe · come to grief · forewarning · fair warning · retribution · anathema · rue the day · admonition · reckoning · or else · repercussion · punishment · mark my words · alas · threat
curse/blessing
woe betideGod bless
Invoking divine favor
bless · blessed be · bless you · God be with you · long live
woe, woeful, woefully, bode, biding, forebode, betide, woefulness