hell to pay

“But I quickly scrapped them all … If I don’t win, there will be hell to pay,” he jokes.

She would plan to build up the U.S. military as a deterrent and has said, “We need to let China know there will be hell to pay if they touch Taiwan.”

He also took it upon himself to pen a letter to several colleges issuing a demand that they comply with the recent Supreme Court ruling outlawing Affirmative Action or there would be hell to pay.

He did not identify the Kremlin faction but said that it continued its attempts to sow discord, it would have "hell to pay".

Harvey responded, “It’s going to be a lot of hell to pay at your house.”