devil

Related to devil: Devil worship, devil's advocate, Deviled eggs

*devil

Fig. a severe scolding. (*Typically: get ~; Catch ~; give someone ~.) Bill is always getting the devil about something. I'm late. If I don't get home soon, I'll catch the devil!
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See:
  • (as) black as the devil
  • (as) hot as the devil
  • (in) the devil
  • (just) for the devil of it
  • a devil of a
  • a devil of a job
  • a devil of a time
  • a/the devil of a job, nuisance, fellow, etc.
  • a/the devil's advocate
  • an idle brain is the devil's workshop
  • be (the) devil's advocate
  • be a devil
  • be a devil!
  • better the devil you know
  • better the devil you know than the devil you don't
  • better the devil you know than the devil you don't know
  • better the devil you know than the one you don't know
  • between a rock and a hard place
  • between the devil and the deep blue sea
  • blue devils
  • catch the devil
  • caught between the devil and the deep blue sea
  • crafty devil
  • devil
  • devil (someone or something) for (something)
  • devil and deep blue sea
  • devil can quote Scripture for his own purpose
  • devil finds work for idle hands to do
  • devil for
  • devil in disguise
  • devil is not so black as he is painted
  • devil looks after his own
  • devil of a
  • devil of a job
  • devil of a time
  • devil take the hindmost
  • devil take the hindmost, the
  • devil to pay, the
  • devil you know is better than the devil you don't know, the
  • devil-may-care
  • devil-may-care attitude
  • devil-may-care manner
  • devil's advocate
  • devil's advocate, (to play)
  • devil's children have the devil's luck
  • dine with the devil
  • Every man for himself
  • every man for himself and the devil take the hindmost
  • folk devil
  • for the devil of it
  • full of it
  • full of the devil
  • get the devil
  • give (one) the devil
  • give someone hell
  • give the devil his due
  • give the devil his/her due
  • Go to blazes!
  • go to hell
  • go to the devil
  • Go to the devil!
  • go to the devil/hell
  • God sends meat and the devil sends cooks
  • handsome devil
  • have the devil to pay
  • have the devil's (own) luck
  • have the devil's own job
  • have the luck of the devil
  • he who sups with the devil should have a long spoon
  • hell/the devil to pay
  • idle brain is the devil's workshop
  • idle hands are the devil's playthings
  • idle hands are the devil's tools
  • idle hands are the devil's workshop
  • like the devil
  • luck of the devil
  • luck of the devil/draw/Irish
  • lucky devil
  • Needs must when the devil drives
  • paint the devil on the wall
  • play (the) devil's advocate
  • play devil's advocate
  • play hell with someone/something
  • play the devil with
  • play the devil with (something)
  • play the devil with someone/something
  • raise Cain
  • raise hell
  • raise the devil
  • raise the devil with (someone or something)
  • raise the devil with someone
  • raise the devil with something
  • scare the devil out of (one)
  • sell (one's) soul (to the devil)
  • Set a beggar on horseback, and he'll ride to the devil
  • Set a beggar on horseback, and he'll ride to the devil.
  • speak of the devil
  • speak of the devil, and he appears
  • speak of the devil, and he is sure to appear
  • speak of the devil, and he shall appear
  • speak of the devil, and he will appear
  • speak/talk of the devil
  • sup with the devil
  • talk of the devil
  • talk of the devil, and he is bound to appear
  • talk of the devil, and he is sure to appear
  • talk of the devil, and he shall appear
  • talk of the devil, and he will appear
  • tell the truth and shame the devil
  • the devil
  • the devil can cite Scripture for his own purpose
  • the devil can quote Scripture for his own purpose
  • the devil finds work for idle hands
  • the devil finds work for idle hands to do
  • the devil incarnate
  • the devil is a liar
  • the devil is beating his wife
  • the devil is in the detail
  • the devil is in the detail(s)
  • the devil is meeting his wife
  • the devil is not so black as he is painted
  • the devil looks after his own
  • the devil makes work for idle hands
  • the devil makes work for idle hands to do
  • the devil of a time
  • the devil take the hindmost
  • the devil to pay
  • the devil you know
  • the devil you say
  • the devil’s own time
  • the devil's (own) luck
  • the devil's children have the devil's luck
  • the devil's in the detail
  • the devil's own
  • the devil's own (something)
  • the devil's own job
  • the devil's own time
  • the luck of the devil
  • the world, the flesh, and the devil
  • There will be hell to pay
  • there will be the devil to pay
  • what (in) the devil
  • what goes over the devil's back comes under his belly
  • What in the devil?
  • What the devil?
  • when hell freezes over and the devil learns to (ice) skate
  • whip the devil around the stump
  • Who in the devil?
  • Who in the hell?
  • Who the devil?
  • who, what, where, etc. the devil...
  • You scared the hell out of me
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By the start of this year, the mysterious malady--devil facial tumor disease (DFTD)--had wiped out 90 percent of the Tasmanian devil population (see Widespread Disease, right).
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Devils often fight among themselves, especially during mating season.
A devil of a problem
Instead, Jesus begins his ministry alone, in the wilderness, being tempted by the devil. While this is no place for a king, it is to this barren place that the Spirit leads Jesus.
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Anyone who survives the Devil's Triangle with no penalty strokes receives a certificate proclaiming the feat.
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A considerable body of scholarship on the devil in the Middle Ages has been published in recent decades.
Satan Unbound: the Devil in Old English Narrative Literature
Point 15, he says, also solemnly declares that one should not carry out exorcisms if one is not certain of the devil's presence.
Giving Satan a chance: an exorcist's complaint. (Vatican)