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Woe betide is an archaic phrase, loosely translating into modern-day English to mean 'Let woe rise up against', or "May despair come to" formerly used to decry a person's actions. Grammatically, it is a phrase in the subjunctive mood.
This phrase was joked about by comedian Billy Connolly, who joked that he once thought 'Woe betide' to refer to a person, named 'Wobie Tide'. He joked that he thought that he would get along with Wobie, hearing him described by his teachers as 'Wobie Tide, the boy who didn't do his homework' and the like, and said that he was disappointed that he never met Wobie Tide.
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