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Noun
**** to pay (uncountable)
- (idiomatic) Very unpleasant consequences; a great deal of trouble.
- 1912, Mary Roberts Rinehart, "The Miracle" in Love Stories:
- "When I'm hungry, there's **** to pay if I'm not fed quick."
- 1921, Zane Grey, To The Last Man, ch.3:
- "I told him I had sent for you an' when you got heah these slippery, mysterious thieves, whoever they were, would shore have **** to pay."
- 2009 Nov. 16, Amy Sullivan, "Can Dems Resolve Their Abortion Split?," Time (retrieved 28 August 2013):
- Congressman Bart Stupak of Michigan . . . vows that "there will be **** to pay" if his language gets stripped out of, or weakened in, the final legislation.
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