devil take the hindmost, the



devil take the hindmost, the

Let everyone put his or her own interest first, leaving the unfortunate to their fate. For example, I don't care if she makes it or not-the devil take the hindmost. This expression, first recorded in 1608, probably originated as an allusion to a children's game in which the last (coming "hindmost") is the loser, and came to mean utter selfishness.
See also: devil, take

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
I&Eth;Unn-Norse Mythology, Ancient Scandinavian
PiroskaPEE-rosh-kawHungarian
Sophronia-Literature, Late Greek
Prokopis-Greek
Nagore-Basque
Evdokia-Greek