(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.
Tide
Definition:
(prep.) Time; period; season.
(prep.) The alternate rising and falling of the waters of the ocean, and of bays, rivers, etc., connected therewith. The tide ebbs and flows twice in each lunar day, or the space of a little more than twenty-four hours. It is occasioned by the attraction of the sun and moon (the influence of the latter being three times that of the former), acting unequally on the waters in different parts of the earth, thus disturbing their equilibrium. A high tide upon one side of the earth is accompanied by a high tide upon the opposite side. Hence, when the sun and moon are in conjunction or opposition, as at new moon and full moon, their action is such as to produce a greater than the usual tide, called the spring tide, as represented in the cut. When the moon is in the first or third quarter, the sun's attraction in part counteracts the effect of the moon's attraction, thus producing under the moon a smaller tide than usual, called the neap tide.
(prep.) A stream; current; flood; as, a tide of blood.
(prep.) Tendency or direction of causes, influences, or events; course; current.
(prep.) Violent confluence.
(prep.) The period of twelve hours.
(v. t.) To cause to float with the tide; to drive or carry with the tide or stream.
(n.) To betide; to happen.
(n.) To pour a tide or flood.
(n.) To work into or out of a river or harbor by drifting with the tide and anchoring when it becomes adverse.
Example Sentences:
(1) "So we do what we can to keep the red tide from drowning us.
(2) For the moment, the priority is managing this endless human tide.
(3) Government ministers and officials are distressed that the home secretary's resignation has failed to stem the tide of fresh allegation and counter allegation between the protaganists and a number of potentially damaging questions still hang over the visa affair.
(4) First, the argument that balanced budgets and economic growth inevitably lead to a fairer society because “all boats rise on a rising tide”.
(5) The home side dominated the opening quarter of an hour as Argentina struggled to find their feet but the tide turned when Di Maria curled a right-footed shot past Claudio Bravo for the equaliser 10 minutes later.
(6) Updated at 12.27pm GMT 11.46am GMT There's debate at Chesil Beach over when exactly high tide is, writes Steven Morris.
(7) It soon became a standard text for aspiring Young Conservatives and Bow Groupers in the days before the Thatcherite tide had engulfed even those institutions.
(8) In the debate, Sturgeon clearly signalled she was open to working with Ed Miliband, at one point saying: “I agree with Ed.” She challenged the Labour leader to join her in seeking an end austerity and said the SNP was his “ally” in trying to roll back a tide of privatisation in the NHS.
(9) Governments must defeat a rising tide of protectionism to prevent a further slowdown in global growth, the head of the International Monetary Fund has said.
(10) Tony Abbott has tried to stem the tide of discontent within his own party ranks, defending his decision to award a knighthood to Prince Philip and saying the government is “strong and effective” under his leadership.
(11) Apparently the sea wall is a favourite base for extravagant jumps into the water, but not at low tide.
(12) While those "close relation[s]" are not supposed to be passed on for watchlisting absent other "derogatory information", their data may be retained within TIDE for unspecified "analytic purposes".
(13) Tamerlan Tsarnaev was entered into a central database of potential terrorists, the Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment (Tide), that is maintained by the National Counterterrorism Center.
(14) Donald Trump is fairly progressive about gay people but when you look at Mike Pence and the Republican party, the religious undertone threatens to roll back the tide of progress.
(15) The lack of obvious motive baffled commentators who said the British director of Top Gun, Crimson Tide and Beverly Hills Cop II appeared to have it all: success, wealth, respect, a wife and two young children.
(16) We have not turned the tide on the ease with which money can be shifted out of developing countries.” There are lots of ways to get money out of a country undetected but the easiest is through trade misinvoicing, which is the overpricing of imports and the underpricing of exports – and accounts for 77% of all illicit financial flows.
(17) We are up against a very strong king tide so some of the floodwater will take time to recede.” New Zealand prime minister Bill English addressed the situation on social media on Saturday.
(18) Outbreaks of airborne respiratory irritation in populations exposed to red tides may be the most common public health problem associated with red tides.
(19) While it is still ridiculous to suggest that Boko Haram will be defeated in six weeks, and still far too early to conclude that the tide has turned against the Islamist group, it is reasonable to think that the international intervention may free up some Nigerian military resources in time for the rescheduled election; and, more importantly, keep Boko Haram occupied while voting takes place.
(20) But hard lobbying from the South African government and its regional partners turned the tide for Dlamini-Zuma.