devil's own
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]the devil's own (not comparable)
- Particularly devilish; highly unpleasant or evil.
- 1973, James Watson, Liberal Studies in Further Education: An Informal Survey[1], page 70:
- The reason why our distressed young teacher found it the devil's own job to get the students to write was probably basically that they were not led to believe that written work was expected of them.
- Intense.
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[edit]References
[edit]- “devil*s own”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.