devil's own
adj1
Particularly devilish; highly unpleasant or evil.
- The reason why our distressed young teacher found it the devil's own job to get the students to write was probably basically that they were not led to believe that written work was expected of them.1973, James Watson, Liberal Studies in Further Education: An Informal Survey, page 70:
2
Intense.
- 'The Capt'n's been ridin' the devil's own pace,' said Dalton the coachman.1859, George Eliot, Adam Bede, Penguin Classics, →ISBN, page 127:
- Related terms
- God's own