(v. t.) To happen to; to befall; to come to ; as, woe betide the wanderer.
(v. i.) To come to pass; to happen; to occur.
Example Sentences:
(1) Asked if Aamer would talk publicly about his experiences, Crider said: “I think he will make up his own mind about it, and really, woe betide the person who tries to silence Shaker Aamer.” She added that it would be up to him “how much of his story and the terrible things he witnessed that he wants to tell”.
(2) The reader takes on trust this sense of design, and woe betide the fantasy writer who betrays it.
(3) Woe betide any cut that rendered its repeat impossible.
(4) But woe betide those who go missing when it is time to donate cash.
(5) Woe betide the politician who privatises the Today programme.
(6) The BBC is still the great benchmark of broadcasting and woe betide anybody who interferes with the BBC.” Her remarks were greeted with with loud applause.
(7) But woe betide any splitters under our imperious system that forces such uncomfortable bedfellows to pretend they belong in the same party.
(8) (Woe betide the film-maker who makes movies for older women .)
(9) Woe betide anybody on Twitter who suggests Madonna's best work may be behind her, for instance.
(10) We used to make jute bags with a long sewing machine – and woe betide you if you broke something; you'd have to pay for it.
(11) The women coming out of school right now wouldn’t think for a moment they should be considered differently – and woe betide the first 50-year-old man who puts his hand on them because they’ll get a slap.” We’ve been talking for a while now, and she’s getting restless, which is, perhaps, why she gives me pretty short shrift when it comes to what she refers to as “my interpretation” of what Andrea Leadsom said about motherhood during her ill-fated campaign for the Tory leadership.
(12) Woe betide you getting ill in this area if you are old, disabled or have learning difficulties in the next seven years.
(13) Meanwhile, staff wearing neat, brightly coloured uniforms scuttle about in carefully choreographed sequences: woe betide anyone who doesn't walk straight down the middle of a staircase.
(14) His playing is not filled with carefree laughter: it is a rather grim and serious business, and woe betide the adult who gets in his way.
(15) Woe betide the pompous, who found themselves skewered with barbs of humour, and the boring, who found themselves banished.
(16) But though she may have orgnised raucous karaoke nights at party conferences, woe betide anyone who understimates her serious side.
(17) Woe betide anyone who tries to smuggle in a pencil.
(18) But woe betide anyone proposing change to this sacred body, whether to curb costs, ration treatment or offer innovative ideas for salvation.