Nonetheless, he said, "You make a deal with the devil to defeat another devil".
And while Shakespeare gave us some of the best devilish sayings in English language (from "Tell the truth and shame the devil" to "the devil incarnate"), his contemporary Marlowe's Dr Faustus remains the cautionary tale about pacts with you-know-who.
Then the cancerous cells spread from one devil to another, helped by devils' tendency to bite each other.
There's a legend that San Francisco was built in one night after a local called Cantuña made a pact with the devil: the devil built it down to the last stone, but Cantuña gave his soul in exchange.
"There's an old saying, when you dance with the devil, the devil changes you," Signer said, referring to the messaging that marked Trump's presidential bid.
Keynes didn't expect, however, that like most deals with the devil, the devil had the upper hand: Greed managed to suck up most of the benefits of almighty progress for itself.
Paprocki and Thomas referred to demons and devils, and to devils in the plural and singular.
Sure, it's handy for adding a dash of color to deviled eggs or, um, deviled eggs.
Sykora compared Kariya's leadership style to that of Scott Stevens, the Devils' captain, who led the Devils to Cup championships in 1995 and 2000.
Adult devils may eat young devils if they are very hungry, so this climbing behaviour may be an adaptation to allow young devils to escape.
