deuce

informal, dated

a (or the) deuce of a - something very bad or difficult of its kind.

1933John GalsworthyThe End of the Chapter It seems there's a deuce of a fuss in the Bolivian papers.

the deuce to pay trouble to be expected.

like the deuce very fast.

☞ Deuce was first used in 17th-century English in various exclamatory expressions in which it was equated with 'bad luck' or 'mischief', because in dice-playing two (= deuce) is the lowest and most unlucky throw. From this there soon developed the sense of deuce as 'the devil' (i.e. bad luck or mischief personified). Deuce as a euphemism for the devil occurs in a number of expressions, including those above.

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释义	deuce informal, dated a (or the) deuce of a - something very bad or difficult of its kind. 1933John GalsworthyThe End of the Chapter It seems there's a deuce of a fuss in the Bolivian papers. the deuce to pay trouble to be expected. like the deuce very fast. ☞ Deuce was first used in 17th-century English in various exclamatory expressions in which it was equated with 'bad luck' or 'mischief', because in dice-playing two (= deuce) is the lowest and most unlucky throw. From this there soon developed the sense of deuce as 'the devil' (i.e. bad luck or mischief personified). Deuce as a euphemism for the devil occurs in a number of expressions, including those above.
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