📖 Определения и значения для слова devil
📒 the most powerful evil being
- belief in the Devil
- His strong left-wing views make him the devil incarnate to more extreme Conservatives.
📒 an evil spirit
- They believed she was possessed by devils.
- He behaved like someone possessed by devils.
📒 a person who behaves badly, especially a child
- a naughty little devil
📒 used to talk about somebody and to emphasize an opinion that you have of them
- I miss the old devil, now that he's gone.
- She's off to Greece for a month—lucky devil!
- James was a handsome devil and rich, too.
📒 people say Be a devil! to encourage somebody to do something that they are not sure about doing
- Go on, be a devil, buy both of them.
📒 used to say that it is easier and wiser to stay in a bad situation that you know and can deal with rather than change to a new situation that may be much worse
📒 in a difficult situation where there are two equally unpleasant or unacceptable choices
📒 very difficult or unpleasant
- These berries are the devil to pick because they're so small.
📒 bad people often seem to have good luck
📒 people who do not have enough to do often start to do wrong
- She blamed the crimes on the local jobless teenagers. ‘The devil makes work for idle hands,’ she would say.
📒 a very difficult or unpleasant job or time
- I've had a devil of a job finding you.
📒 a lot of trouble
- There'll be hell to pay when he finds out.
📒 used, in an unfriendly way, to tell somebody to go away
📒 very hard, fast, etc.
- We ran like the devil.
📒 to do anything, even something really bad or dishonest, in return for money, success or power
📒 people say speak/talk of the devil when somebody they have been talking about appears unexpectedly
- Well, speak of the devil—here's Alice now!
📒 used in questions to show that you are annoyed or surprised
- What the devil do you think you're doing?