📚 phrase • entry_id 49888
devil take the hindmost
Meanings (ES + gloss)
el último mono es el que se ahoga
An imprecation that everyone should look after their own interests, leaving those who cannot cope to whatever fate befalls them.
Land Alianable which would bring in the Stock Jobbing Temper, the Devill take the Hindmost.
Then, horn for horn, they stretch an strive: Deil tak the hindmost, on they drive, Till a’ their weel-swall’d kytes belyve Are bent like drums; The auld Guidman, maist like to rive…
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