betide

Woe betide anyone who didn't meet Amorim's standards.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2025

But woe betide anyone who tried to give her out-of-season berries.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 21, 2022

Woe betide the civic leader in a company town who threatens to buck the company’s interests.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2022

“Woe betide those who clapped him as a saint.”

From Washington Post ● Aug. 20, 2019

Woe betide the plant whose genetic program is mismatched to the latitude of the field in which it is planted!

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

But I have to wonder if, whatever betides, I can stay upbeat in spirit.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 16, 2019

It fails to mention Ogden Nash's "One rule which woe betides the banker who fails to heed it,/ Which is you must never lend any money to anybody unless they don't need it."

From Time Magazine Archive

Mine are to stand firm, whatever betides, and guard the women!

From The Abbess Of Vlaye by Weyman, Stanley J.

“An’ you promise to say no word, whatever betides, an’ whatever you hear?”

From Children of the Mist by Phillpotts, Eden

Now I bid you go to Combwich hill, there to wait what betides.

From A Thane of Wessex by Whistler, Charles W. (Charles Watts)

He told them what had betided him and themseemed, by the host's counsel, that he were best depart Naples incontinent.

From The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Payne, John

Not only was he unapprized of the disaster that had happened, but some joyous occurrence had betided.

From Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale by Brown, Charles Brockden

They were not apprized of any inconvenience or danger that betided her.

From Ormond, Volume III (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Brown, Charles Brockden

Anguish flying, gladly dying; no more pining, night-enshrining, ne'er divided whate'er betided, side by side still abide in realms of space unmeasured, vision blest and treasured!

From Tristan and Isolda Opera in Three Acts by Wagner, Richard

So be of good cheer and tell us what hath betided thee from him.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III by Payne, John

There was an Ark with scrolls of the Law in the room, betiding a piety and a purse beyond the normal.

From Ghetto Comedies by Zangwill, Israel

O I know the Hand that is guiding me Through the shadow to the light; And I know that all betiding me Is meted out aright.

From Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul by Mudge, James

The death of my son betiding while my soul was under this anxiety, I thought of nothing but resigning my dominions, and retiring for ever from the sight of mankind.

From Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale by Beckford, William

For prairie and mountain, windswept and high, For betiding beauty of earth and sky— Say a benediction e'er you pass by.

From The Miracle and Other Poems by Sheard, Virna

Betide, betided or betid, betiding, betided or betid.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold