| 单词 | the devil to pay and no pitch hot |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe devil to pay and no pitch hot the devil to pay and no pitch hot: a problem for which there is no obvious or immediate solution; now chiefly historical. (Probably merely an elaboration of the standard form of the phrase, rather than a reference to the difficulty of ‘paying’ or caulking the seam near a ship's keel called the ‘devil’; see note at sense 13.)extracted from deviln.< as lemmas |
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