noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
economic
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To win again in 1996 the Clintons must address the country's economic woes first.
financial
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The threat of at least one multi-million-dollar fine facing Koons and Sonnabend compounds their financial woes at this moment.
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His arrival and the Raiders' existing financial woes have had an impact on various areas of the organization.
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He said first he had to deal with the provincial government's financial woes and an economic downturn.
■ NOUN
betide
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Keith will play with Amy but woe betide her if she does not hand him toys, her food etc.
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The rules and regulations of her domain are established, and woe betide members of the household who break them.
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She patrolled the aisles like a gaoler and woe betide you if that heavy tread stopped at your desk.
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The teacher would call us up to the front of the class to recite it, and woe betide anyone who faltered.
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Everything was meant to have been thought out and planned, and woe betide any signs of undue excitement or stress.
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Bullying and overpowering, he believed that might was right and woe betide anyone who stood in his way.
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If she answered back, woe betide her.
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A short, dumpy lady shaped rather like a cottage loaf, she seldom smiled and woe betide anyone not paying attention.
■ VERB
add
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Seven minutes later Raul added to Valencia's woes , slipping the third past Canizares after running from inside his own half.
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The winter's rail disruption, floods and snow added to retailers' woes as shoppers stayed at home.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
tale of woe
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He bore a tale of woe from the Old World.
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His morose ruminations were interrupted by Benny Katz, who wanted anyone he could find to listen to his tale of woe.
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I spend a lot of time recounting tales of woe from friends and readers, but this one is my own.
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Their musical tales of woe and spiritual import were needed more than ever.
woe betide sb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I saw more of human agony and woe than l trust I will ever again be called on to witness.
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Keith will play with Amy but woe betide her if she does not hand him toys, her food etc.
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She thought of the baby only as her last blunder in loving, a mistake leading her nearer to this dreadful woe .
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The image left by these events was of a company besieged by technical, legal, marketing and customer-service woes.
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The Magic situation is symbolic of the Lakers' woes.
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You must listen to their interminable tales of marital woe .