See DEVIL’S BONES.
[Also to note in this connection are DEVIL’S OWN BOY = a young blackguard; IMP OF THE DEVIL = idem; DEVIL’S OWN SHIP = a pirate; DEVIL’S OWN LUCK = uncommon, or inexplicable, good fortune; TO LEAD ONE THE DEVIL’S OWN DANCE = to baffle one in the pursuit of any object; THE DEVIL A BIT SAYS PUNCH = a jocular yet decided negative; and NEAT BUT NOT GAUDY, AS THE DEVIL SAID WHEN HE PAINTED HIS BOTTOM PINK AND TIED UP HIS TAIL WITH PEA GREEN, a locution employed of aged ladies dressed in flaming colours.]
