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*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!

See:

• (as) black as the devil
• a devil of a time
• be (the) devil's advocate
• 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
• caught between the devil and the deep blue sea
• crafty devil
• devil
• 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, the
• devil to pay, the
• devil-may-care
• devil-may-care attitude
• devil's advocate
• devil's children have the devil's luck
• Every man for himself
• folk devil
• for the devil of it
• full of it
• full of the devil
• give due
• give someone hell
• give the devil his due
• Go to blazes!
• go to hell
• go to the devil
• Go to the devil!
• God sends meat and the devil sends cooks
• have the devil to pay
• have the devil's own job
• have the devil's own luck
• have the luck of the devil
• He who sups with the devil should have a long spoon
• 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
• lucky devil
• Needs must when the devil drives
• play devil's advocate
• play hell with someone/something
• play the devil with
• play the devil with someone/something
• raise Cain
• raise the devil
• raise the devil with someone
• raise the devil with something
• 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
• 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 finds work for idle hands
• the devil is in the detail(s)
• the devil looks after his own
• the devil of a time
• the devil take the hindmost
• the devil to pay
• the devil’s own time
• the devil's own luck
• There will be hell to pay
• there will be the devil to pay
• What in the devil?
• What the devil?
• Who in the devil?
• Who in the hell?
• Who the devil?
• You scared the hell out of me