Wiktionary
n. (context idiomatic English) Very unpleasant consequences; a great deal of trouble.
WordNet
n. dire consequences; "when the pig ran away there was hell to pay"
Wikipedia
Hell to Pay is the ninth studio album by American heavy metal band Dokken, released in 2004. It was produced by Don Dokken himself and is also the first studio album to feature lead guitarist Jon Levin.
Hell to Pay is a 2002 crime novel by George Pelecanos. It is set in Washington DC and focuses on private investigator Derek Strange and his partner Terry Quinn. It is the second novel to involve the characters and is preceded by Right as Rain (2001) and followed by Soul Circus (2003) and Hard Revolution (2004).
Hell to Pay is the second album by The Jeff Healey Band. It was released in 1990, and was one of the top albums in Canada. In 1991 it was nominated for an " Album of the Year" Juno.
Guest musicians on the album include George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Bobby Whitlock and Mark Knopfler.
The album was recorded at Le Studio in Morin Heights, Quebec, Canada in January and February 1990.
Hell to Pay may refer to:
- Hell to Pay (novel), a 2002 crime novel by George Pelecanos
- Hell to Pay: The Unfolding Story of Hillary Rodham Clinton, a 2001 biographical book by Barbara Olson
- Hell to Pay (2005 film), a 2005 British film by Roberto Gomez Martin
- Hell to Pay (2014 film), a 2014 film
- Hell to Pay (The Jeff Healey Band album), 1990
- Hell to Pay (Dokken album), 2004
- " Hell to Pay (Five Finger Death Punch song)", 2015
- " Hell to Pay (Drowning Pool song)", 2016
Hell to Pay is a 2005 British film by Roberto Gomez Martin, his directorial debut, about a London East End's gangster life based on the semi-autobiographical story of Dave Courtney, who plays character of Dave Malone in the film.
Usage examples of "hell to pay".
You've loosed the lightning of His terrible swift sword, if you take my meaning, and now there's going to be Hell to pay in the Badlands.
Most people here work like hell to pay the property taxes and their mortgages, and keep their kids in school.
But there's hell to pay, and I don't want the bill collected from my children.
There'd have to be a reckoning when you turned twenty-one and took over your own affairs and then there'd be all hell to pay, wouldn't there?
They knew that within five blocks it would run head-on into the Black Muslims and there'd be hell to pay.
But if it got out that they had done so, there would be hell to pay, and the fuss might spoil the triumph.
Theirs was a relationship that could only be cheaply imitated by Bill and Hillary - the latter being a subject of Barbara's appropriately biting best-seller Hell to Pay.
I told him I had sent for you an' when you got heah these slippery, mysterious thieves, whoever they were, would shore have hell to pay.
We are seemingly unscathed, but sooner or later there will be hell to pay.