vengeance : Idioms & Phrases
What a vengeance , ∨ What the vengeance
- what! emphatically. Obs. "But what a vengeance makes thee fly!" Hudibras. "What the vengeance! Could he not speak 'em fair?" Shak.
Webster 1913
With a vengeance
- with great violence; as, to strike with a vengeance. Colloq.