What does hell and tommy mean?

hell and tommy

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.11 in modern English

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British usage; Dated; Slang; Uncountable

"If you refuse, there will be hell and Tommy."
"But Gurney gets beyond a joke, my boy, with his drinking and what not. We must have the blighter shifted out of this district for good, or it will be hell and Tommy for all of us."

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