devil a bit
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devil a bit
adverb
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Synonym of not at all.
“Devil a bit, Ma’am,” said the Major. “We couldn’t afford it. Unless the world was peopled with J.B.’s—tough and blunt old Joes, Ma’am, plain red herrings with hard roes, Sir—we couldn’t afford it. It wouldn’t do.”
Similar: not at all
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title = {devil a bit},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
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