Talk:devil's own
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Is this idiomatic? --Connel MacKenzie 22:21, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
- Own is not normally a noun/pronoun, and most cases where used as such can also be interpreted as an ellipsis. This phrase is semantically awkward when it doesn't modify anything. "They are the devil's own." The devil's own what? DAVilla 01:47, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
- It seems to me that the "Devil's own" by itself means people allied with the Devil, such as witches, lawyers etc. "The devil's own X" means an extremely "devilish" X.
- 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. [1] Kappa 23:40, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
- Yes. Keep. Cheers! bd2412 T 00:42, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
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Isn't this always in the form the devil's own? -- Visviva 17:17, 29 September 2007 (UTC)