"There will be the deuce to pay" nghĩa là gì?

Đừng tưởng tòm tem bên ngoài mà qua mắt được đàn bà con gái nha. Photo by Damir Spanic on Unsplash

"(There will be) the deuce to pay" nghĩa là điều phiều phức, rắc rối lớn phải hứng lấy.

Ví dụ
My brewer has found out already how we served him, and there is the deuce to pay.

I see by every sign, There soon will be the deuce to pay, With this estate of mine.

Jack, if you ever flirt with another woman on the sly (kín đáo), and I see you, there'll be the deuce to pay.

I had explained before that owing to my late working hours it would have to be a late meeting, and this had not seemed to trouble her. Nor did it, apparently. Now she took me by the arm, she knew she oughtn't do this, that she was a bad girl, and that if her parents knew, there would be the deuce to pay—and walked with me to the room.


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