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PRONUNCIATION OF GIVE THE DEVIL HIS DUE

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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE GIVE THE DEVIL HIS DUE

give someone the benefit of the doubt
give someone the best
give someone the bird
give someone the cold shoulder
give someone the dingbats
give someone the flick
give someone the slip
give something a miss
give something a whirl
give something houseroom
give suck to
give the game away
give the lie to
give them heaps
give to the world
give up
give up the ghost
give vent to
give way
give way to

WORDS THAT END LIKE GIVE THE DEVIL HIS DUE

cire perdue
due
endue
fondue
give a person his due
indue
overdue
perdue
residue
subdue
undue
vendue

Synonyms and antonyms of give the devil his due in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «give the devil his due» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF GIVE THE DEVIL HIS DUE

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Translator English - Chinese

给魔鬼他应得的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

dar al diablo su deuda
570 millions of speakers

English

give the devil his due
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

शैतान उसके कारण दे
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تعطي الشيطان له بسبب
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

дать дьяволу по заслугам
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

dar ao diabo sua dívida
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

শয়তান তার কারণে প্রদান
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

donner au diable son dû
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Berikan syaitan itu untuknya
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

geben dem Teufel sein Recht
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

悪魔に彼の原因を与える
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

악마 에게 그의 인해 를 제공
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Menehi setan iku amarga
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cho ma quỉ do của mình
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பிசாசுக்கு அவனது உரிமையையும் கொடுங்கள்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

त्याच्या देय द्या
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Şeytana vermek
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

dare il diavolo gli è dovuto
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

dać diabłu mu się należy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

дати дияволу по заслугах
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

da diavolul din cauza lui
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

δίνουν στο διάβολο , λόγω του
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

gee die duiwel wat hom toekom
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

ger djävulen sin grund
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

gi djevelen sin grunn
5 millions of speakers

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «GIVE THE DEVIL HIS DUE»

The term «give the devil his due» is regularly used and occupies the 67.216 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GIVE THE DEVIL HIS DUE»

Discover the use of give the devil his due in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to give the devil his due and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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A Dictionary of American Proverbs
(b) Give the devil his due. (c) Give the devil his due no matter who he is or what he is. (d) Give the devil his just dues. (e) Render unto the devil his due. (f) The devil gets his due. (g) The devil will have his due. (h) You've got to give the devil his ...
Wolfgang Mieder, Stewart A. Kingsbury, Kelsie B. Harder, 1992
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Early American Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases
1798 Adams New Letters 137: Give the devil his due, but by no more than he deserves to his charge. 1799 Jefferson Writings 10.109. 1803 JJackson in Milledge Correspondence 98. 1804 Brackenridge Modern 395. 1809 Fessenden Pills 45.
Bartlett Jere Whiting, 1977
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Creating Fear: News and the Construction of Crisis
... about fear in social life, my focus is on how fear has become part of a public discourse and a perspective for viewing social experience. As nored throughout this work, the discourse of fear refers 1 1: Give the Devil His Due: Fear in Its Place .
David L. Altheide
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Dictionary of Proverbs
1 597: Shakespeare, 1 Henry l\ ', ] ii 1669: Dryden, Wild Gallant, II ii, Let every man speak as he finds, and give the devil his due. 1709: Mandeville, Iirgm Unmask'd, 28 (1724), Tho' I give the devil his due, I still defy him. 1 825: Planche  ...
George Latimer Apperson, Martin H. Manser, Stephen J. Curtis, 2005
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The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs
Variant of this proverb: give me a child for the first seven years, and you may do what you like with him afterwards. Proverb expressing similar meaning: THE CHILD IS THE FATHER OF THE MAN. give the devil his due People deserve ...
Martin H. Manser, Rosalind Fergusson, David Pickering, 2007
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English-Albanian Dictionary of Idioms
give the devil his due give up just about giving it up as a bad job when I suddenly felt a rather smart pull at the line. give the devil his due kija inatin dhe foli hakun; te' rrime shtrember e te flasim drejt! □ / don 't trust Jack but, give the devil his ...
Ilo Stefanllari, 2000
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A Dictionary of Anglo-American Proverbs & Proverbial ...
1979. New York: Dell Publishing Company, 1981. 1990 "It gives me devil-may- care nerve." (p. 267) Larsen, Gaylord. Dorothy and Agatha. 1990. New York: Onyx Books, 1992. To give the devil his due (APP 100; ODEP 304; EAP 106; CODP 92 ...
George B. Bryan, Wolfgang Mieder, 2005
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Cool Conduct: The Culture of Distance in Weimar Germany
"You must give the Devil his due,”* writes Plessner, as a motto above the introduction to his Grenzen of 1924. In an incidental note, he registers the " Luciferian" appeal emanating from decisive men. The motif of gambling with the devil leads ...
Helmut Lethen, 2002
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Don Quixote
... she went and fetched him wine to make him amends, and paid for it too out of her own pocket: for, to give the Devil his due, it was said of her, that though she was somewhat too free of her favours, yet she had something of Christianity in her.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1993
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The gold-finch; a choice collection of the most celebrated ...
GIVE THE DEVIL HIS DUE. UR cares are all vanish'd, our fears are all o'er, The Devil and Faustus shall plague us no more, Thus freed from his magic, our pastimcs renew, And ever, as now, give the Devil his due. Our labours shall prosper ...
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10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GIVE THE DEVIL HIS DUE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term give the devil his due is used in the context of the following news items.
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The eerie dilemma between coincidence and conspiracy
Got to give the devil his due: the level of detail in the planning of this scam would please Sherlock. FRESH SKELETONS. The latest damming ... «Khaleej Times, Jul 15»
2
Varun should continue to be honest and show humility - David …
So let's give the devil his due." This is pretty much apparent with the fact that in 2015, within six months, Varun Dhawan has featured in two films ... «Oye! Times, Jul 15»
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"Varun should continue to be honest and show humility" - David …
So let's give the devil his due." This is pretty much apparent with the fact that in 2015, within six months, Varun Dhawan has featured in two films ... «Bollywood Hungama, Jul 15»
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High time for the government to come out of its hackneyed mindset
Truth should be told with all candidness. 'To give the devil his due,' one must admit that compared to many of his predecessors and successors ... «GreaterKashmir.com, Jun 15»
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Rakesh Maria: A man of many controversies and investigations
“You have no choice but to give the devil his due. He gets his work done, and one can do nothing, but admire that,” said an IPS officer, ... «Hindustan Times, Jun 15»
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Rakesh Maria: A man of many controversies and investigations …
“You have no choice but to give the devil his due. He gets his work done, and one can do nothing, but admire that,” said an IPS officer, ... «NYOOOZ, Jun 15»
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Tinubu: The hyenas, vultures have come to supper
... as I was sure they knew me not to 'advocate for the devil', yet they should not forget that I was not one either not to 'give the devil his due'. «The News, Jun 15»
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Our academic freedom endangered
To give the devil his due, it's said that the American educational system is designed to provide industry with a work force that has been dumbed ... «West Hawaii Today, Jun 15»
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Moyo, you can't know everything
Give the devil his due, the professor has a perchance for steering up the hornet's nest and most times, shows some reckless bravado that is ... «Nehanda Radio, Jun 15»
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If Sepp's Satan, let's give the Devil his due
Unlike a lot of Jamaicans, I am not celebrating the fall from grace of Sepp Blatter. His detractors will tell you that he was nothing more than a ... «Jamaica Gleaner, Jun 15»

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