wigs on the green

Etymology
In reference to the wigs that gentlemen used to wear, which might fall to the ground during a fight.

Noun

 * 1)  A fight; a brawl.
 * 2)  Big trouble.
 * 3) * 1998 Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes Ch.XII (Simon and Schuster, ISBN 9780684864839) p.272:
 * She says, If ye don't fix yeer brother's shoes an' I have to get out of this bed there will be wigs on the green.
 * She says, If ye don't fix yeer brother's shoes an' I have to get out of this bed there will be wigs on the green.