"Woe to you" nghĩa là gì?

Third Melbourne protest for the Palestinians of Gaza against the brutal attack by Israel. Photo courtesy Takver.

'Woe betide someone' (or woe to someone) có từ woe là điều phiền muộn, nỗi thống khổ; vì thế cụm từ này nghĩa là (đùa cợt) sẽ rắc rối đấy (used humorously to warn someone that they will be in trouble if they do a specified thing).

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Woe betide anyone wearing the wrong color!

Woe to the nation that has no dreams.

Israeli Defense Minister: ‘Woe to us if we do not internalize the lessons of the Yom Kippur War'

"Woe to the statesman whose arguments for entering a war are not as convincing at its end as they were at the beginning," Bismarck has cautioned.

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