(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.
Happen
Definition:
(v. i.) To come by chance; to come without previous expectation; to fall out.
(v. i.) To take place; to occur.
Example Sentences:
(1) He is also the foremost theorist of the Tijuana-San Diego border in terms of what happens when the urban culture of the developing world collides with that of the developed world.
(2) Would people feel differently about it if, for instance, it happened on Boxing Day or Christmas Eve?
(3) "At the same time, however, we cannot allow one man's untrue version of what happened to stand unchallenged," he said.
(4) I think part of it is you can either go places where that's bound to happen.
(5) These results do not support the view that in the rat pheromones from adult males enhance puberty in females, contrary to what is known to happen in the mouse.
(6) The only way we can change it, is if we get people to look in and understand what is happening.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Dean, Clare and their baby son.
(7) That is what needs to happen for this company, which started out as a rebellious presence in the business, determined to get credit for its creative visionaries.
(8) "David Cameron has lost control of what's happening in the NHS.
(9) The small print revealed that Osborne claimed a fall in borrowing largely by factoring in the proceeds of a 4G telecomms auction that has not yet happened.
(10) She was clearly elected on a pledge not to cut school funding and that’s exactly what is happening,” Corbyn said.
(11) Urban hives boom could be 'bad for bees' What happened: Two professors from a University of Sussex laboratory are urging wannabe-urban beekeepers to consider planting more flowers instead of taking up the increasingly popular hobby.
(12) It happens to anyone and everyone and this has been an 11-year battle.” Emergency services were called to the oval about 6.30pm to treat Luke for head injuries, but were unable to revive him.
(13) One might expect that a similar news spike and rebounding of support for stricter gun control can happen, given President Obama's new push.
(14) At present, fewer than 20% do so, with more than half of all deaths happening in hospital and the rest in hospices or care homes.
(15) It mostly happens to strong men whose biceps muscle are contracted and overstretched unexpectedly.
(16) However, I’m behaving as if it’s all going to happen as planned.” It has certainly been a long road to production.
(17) There is no evidence to support the move to seven-day services, there is no evidence of what is going to happen if we divert our resources away from the week to weekends.
(18) Some factors of resistance (such as side benefits) happen in reactive and neurotic depressions and are independent of the pharmacological action.
(19) It is important for this commission to get to the truth of what happened and it's able to carry on without interference and disruption.
(20) And would all Labour cabinet ministers be as willing to work closely with Lib Dem ministers of state, as happens now, though with some spiky exceptions?