• verity_kindle
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    716 days ago

    Love to see the proper use of “Woe Betide”, let’s bring it into more frequent use. Example: Woe betide she who spills my pumpkin spice latte!

    • @RolandoOP
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      516 days ago
      • “O gentle Aaron, we are all vndone. / Now helpe, or woe betide thee euermore.” -shakespeare
      • “Woe betide the Subſcribers, their Children and Wives, / This Action ſhall coſt 'em five hundred Folks Lives.” -w.pittis
      • "“God save us!” cried the captain, / “For naught can man avail; / Oh, woe betide the ship that lacks / Her rudder and her sail![”] -jg whittier

      https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/woe_betide