devilish phrases
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We use this phrase to say “the details are important”
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I’m going to play devil’s advocate on this one. Let’s see what other points of view we can come up with.
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If you play devil’s advocate it means that you pretend, in an argument or discussion, to be against something in order to make people think about it more objectively and in more detail.
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Someone who is devil-may-care or who has a devil-may-care attitude is relaxed and not too worried about the consequences of things they do.
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This is the phrase we say when we’re talking about someone, or you’ve just mentioned someone, and then they arrive unexpectedly.
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This means to abandon your values, your principles, your integrity in return for money, power, wealth, status.
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This means to abandon your values, your principles, your integrity in return for money, power, wealth, status.
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We say this phrase when we want to express the idea that it’s better to stay with a bad situation that you know, than to risk a different situation that you don’t know which could be worse
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cruel, difficult, hard, nasty
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