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RELATED WORDS : base pay combat pay come hell or high water gambling hell hell hell bent hell dust hell on earth hell raiser hell raising like hell merit pay pay pay as you earn pay attention pay back pay cash pay cerps pay claim pay cut pay dirt pay envelope pay for pay heed pay no attention to pay off pay out pay packet pay rate pay rock pay streak pay up raise hell raising hell rate of pay sick pay strike pay take home pay take-home pay

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Noun hell to pay has 1 sense

• hell to pay(n = noun.attribute) Array - dire consequences; "when the pig ran away there was hell to pay"
is a kind of consequence, import, moment

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hell to pay

bind, clutch, complication, crunch, embarrassing position, embarrassment, fine how-do-you-do, hobble, hot water, how-do-you-do, imbroglio, jam, mess, mix, morass, parlous straits, pass, pickle, pinch, plight, predicament, pretty pass, pretty pickle, pretty predicament, quagmire, quicksand, scrape, slough, spot, squeeze, stew, sticky wicket, strait, straits, swamp, tight spot, tight squeeze, tightrope, tricky spot, unholy mess

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