(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.
Worth
Definition:
(v. i.) To be; to become; to betide; -- now used only in the phrases, woe worth the day, woe worth the man, etc., in which the verb is in the imperative, and the nouns day, man, etc., are in the dative. Woe be to the day, woe be to the man, etc., are equivalent phrases.
(a.) Valuable; of worthy; estimable; also, worth while.
(a.) Equal in value to; furnishing an equivalent for; proper to be exchanged for.
(a.) Deserving of; -- in a good or bad sense, but chiefly in a good sense.
(a.) Having possessions equal to; having wealth or estate to the value of.
(a.) That quality of a thing which renders it valuable or useful; sum of valuable qualities which render anything useful and sought; value; hence, often, value as expressed in a standard, as money; equivalent in exchange; price.
(a.) Value in respect of moral or personal qualities; excellence; virtue; eminence; desert; merit; usefulness; as, a man or magistrate of great worth.
Example Sentences:
(1) I can see you use humour as a defence mechanism, so in return I could just tell you that if he's massively rich or famous and you've decided you'll put up with it to please him, you'll eventually discover it's not worth it.
(2) 2010 2 May : In a move that signals the start of the eurozone crisis, Greece is bailed out for the first time , after eurozone finance ministers agree to grant the country rescue loans worth €110bn (£84bn).
(3) I hope they fight for the money to make their jobs worth doing, because it's only with the money (a drop in the ocean though it may be) that they'll be able to do anything.
(4) Worth an estimated $17.5bn each, they can afford it.
(5) Unions have complained about the process for Chinese-backed companies to bring overseas workers to Australia for projects worth at least $150m, because the memorandum of understanding says “there will be no requirement for labour market testing” to enter into an investment facilitation arrangements (IFA).
(6) Cefuzoname seems to be among the middle ranks of beta-lactam agents as far as penetration rate is concerned; however, when its potent antibacterial activity and broad spectrum are taken into account, the concentrations in CSF in patients with meningitis seem worth examining.
(7) Britain has been the Gates foundation’s second largest recipient, receiving 25 grants worth $156m since 2003.
(8) It is worth noting though that the government is reaping scant reward in the polls even though the economy has expanded by more than 3% over the past year and – according to the IMF – will be the fastest growing of the G7 economies this year.
(9) Now he can look forward to a rookie contract worth millions.
(10) Mark Latham's insights, insults and feuds are why he's worth reading | Gay Alcorn Read more BuzzFeed political editor Mark Di Stefano, the reporter who broke the story linking Latham to the less-than-savoury @RealMarkLatham Twitter account , had been chasing Stutchbury for days.
(11) Because while some of these alt-currencies show promise, many aren't worth the paper they're not printed on.
(12) If this is the only issue, flight would be fine, but need to make sure that it isn’t symptomatic of a more significant upstream root cause.” Elon Musk (@elonmusk) Btw, 99% likely to be fine (closed loop TVC wd overcome error), but that 1% chance isn't worth rolling the dice.
(13) "It will mean root-and-branch change for our banks if we are to deliver real change for Britain, if we are to rebuild our economy so it works for working people, and if we are to restore trust in a sector of our economy worth billions of pounds and hundreds of thousands of jobs to our country."
(14) It won't be worth putting away his travel bags after returning from Perth as the G20 summit in Cannes, France, beckons.
(15) This suggests his wealth exceeds the total worth of 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney, who was attacked for his wealth throughout the campaign.
(16) The service has proved its worth in Queensland, and provides a model for the development of similar services in other large States of Australia.
(17) About 250 flights were taken off the Friday morning board at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport and Dallas Love Field.
(18) It's also worth noting that if the Help to Buy scheme really does inflate house prices, by waiting five years before you buy you run the risk of not actually being able to save enough for a 10% deposit, because you'll need a bigger amount than you now need.
(19) Nobody knows how often it happens but judging just from my inbox, it’s certainly not a rare occurrence and what struck me as I started to learn about the issue of health privacy is that employees are defenseless against things like this happening to them.” Fei said that she also received her fair share of emails saying: “What makes you think your baby was entitled to million dollars worth of care?
(20) Prices nationwide are increasing at an annual rate of 10%, and the average property in the capital is now worth almost eight times the average income.