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• ХУДО <ПЛОХО> БУДЕТ (кому) coll

[VP; impers; these forms only; usu. a clause in a compound sent; preceded by one or more clauses expressing prohibition, warning etc; often after а то, не то, иначе etc]

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⇒ (if s.o. disobeys an order, fails to do what he should do etc) there will be trouble (for him and/ or another or others):

- X-y худо будет{{}}≈ X will be sorry;

- X will be in hot water;

- X will have the devil to pay;

- X will come to a bad end;

- [when the situation is already bad] things will only get worse.

     ♦ "Раз подъехал к нему и говорю шутейно [substand = шутливо]: "Пора бы привалом стать, ваше благородие - товарищ Мелехов!" Ворохнул [substand, here = сверкнул] он на меня глазами, говорит: "Ты мне эти шутки брось, а то плохо будет" (Шолохов 5). "One day I rides up to him and says joking like, Time to call a halt, Your Honour-Comrade Melekhov!' And you should have seen his eyes flash! 'Just you drop those jokes of yours, or you'll come to a bad end,' he says" (5a).