sell (your) soul (to the devil)

to accept immoral behavior in order to succeed.

If the day comes when I begin to sell my soul like the other managers do, that's the day I'll quit.

Etymology: from the literal idea of exchanging your soul (= spirit) with the devil (= the origin of evil) to get something you want

• frighten someone out of wits
• frighten someone to death
• frighten the daylights out of
• frighten the daylights out of someone
• frighten the hell out of
• frighten the hell out of someone
• frighten the life out of
• frighten the life out of someone
• frighten the living daylights out of
• frighten the living daylights out of someone
• frighten to death
• fritter away
• fritter away something
• from coast to coast
• from day one
• from head to toe
• ... from hell
• from hell
• from of the top drawer
• from one moment to the next
• from on high
• from pillar to post
• from scratch
• from soup to nuts
• from stem to stern