| 词汇 | devil take the hindmost |
| 释义 | Idiom devil take the hindmost(let) the devil take the hindmost old-fashioned something that you say to mean that you should only think about yourself and your own success and not care about other people.You've got to be tough to survive in this business - grab what you can and let the devil take the hindmost. the devil take the hindmostEach person must work independently toward their own success, as in competitive situations. The phrase is sometimes preceded by "Every man for himself." Increasingly, it seems like it's the devil take the hindmost during election season. (the) devil take the ˈhindmost(saying) everyone should look after themselves and not care about others: I like the way people here always queue up. Back home we just push and shove, and the devil take the hindmost!devil take the hindmost, theToo bad for whoever or whatever is last or left behind. The term comes, it is thought, from children’s games like tag, in which the person left behind is the loser. By the sixteenth century it had been transferred to out-and-out selfishness (“Every one for him selfe, and the divel for all,” John Florio, First Fruites, 1578). Beaumont and Fletcher wrote, “What if . . . they run all away, and cry the Devil take the hindmost?” (Philaster, 1608, 5.1). |
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