there'll be hell to pay
informalsomething you say that means someone will be very angry if something happens:
There'll be hell to pay if she doesn't get the money in time.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Chastising & rebuking
- admonition
- barracking
- bawl
- be in sb's face idiom
- beat yourself up
- bring
- carpet
- come down on sb like a ton of bricks idiom
- crucify
- dressing-down
- keelhaul
- lambaste
- lay
- neck
- rebuke
- reprimand
- reproachful
- throw
- throw the book at sb idiom
- upbraid
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