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devil a bit

adv

Definitions

  1. Synonym of not at all.

    • “Devil a bit, Ma’am,” said the Major. “We couldn’t afford it. Unless the world was peopled with J.B.’s—tough and blunt old Joes, Ma’am, plain red herrings with hard roes, Sir—we couldn’t afford it. It wouldn’t do.”

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for devil a bit. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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