| Word | sell your soul = sell your soul to the devil |
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| Description | do or be willing to do anything, no matter how wrong, in order to achieve your objective. The reference here is to a contract supposedly made with the devil by certain people. In return for granting them all their desires in this life, the devil would receive their souls for all eternity. The most famous person reputed to have entered into such a contract was the 16th-century German astronomer and necromancer Faust who became the subject of plays by Goethe and Marlowe and a novel by Thomas Mann. do or be willing to do anything, no matter how wrong, in order to achieve your objective. The reference here is to a contract supposedly made with the devil by certain people. In return for granting them all their desires in this life, the devil would receive their souls for all etern |
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