betide
Verb
Meaning
To happen to; to befall; to come to ; as, woe betide the wanderer.
To come to pass; to happen; to occur.
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He promised that no harm would befall her
What has become of my children?
A knight, for instance, owed his allegiance to an overlord and to the king, and if that code was breached, woe betide him.
And woe betide anyone who dares express a different view.
“It’s fraught with danger,” Johnston laughs, “woe betide the man that tries to correct one of Sim’s lyrics.”
Woe betide the sad soul who unwittingly said something funny or silly with in earshot of my sister.