"Devil take the hindmost" meaning in All languages combined

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Phrase [English]

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  1. Alternative letter-case form of devil take the hindmost. Tags: alt-of Alternative form of: devil take the hindmost
    Sense id: en-Devil_take_the_hindmost-en-phrase--W9OB1Ew Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "ref": "1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “Two Centuries”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book III (The Modern Worker), page 170:",
          "text": "And [we] coldly see the all-conquering valiant Sons of Toil sit enchanted, by the million, in their Poor-Law Bastille, as if this were Nature’s Law;—mumbling to ourselves some vague janglement of Laissez-faire, Supply-and-demand, Cash-payment the one nexus of man to man: Free-trade, Competition, and Devil take the hindmost, our latest Gospel yet preached!",
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          "ref": "1986 September, Valerie Sherwood [pseudonym; Jeanne Hines], chapter 5, in Nightsong, New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 91:",
          "text": "Kells gave her a tender look. She was so reckless, so gallant, his fiery lady. She took every fence at a gallop, she flung her heart over, Devil take the hindmost.",
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          "ref": "2006 July, Elizabeth Bear [pseudonym; Sarah Kindred], Blood and Iron (The Promethean Age; 1), New York, N.Y.: Roc, →ISBN, page 246:",
          "text": "She turned to greet the knock on the door a moment before it fell, the shadows already telling her who was there. Bearing a bottle of wine and a pair of long-stemmed glasses, and a tentative expression. Carel. “Fuck.” Seeker raked one hand through her hair. “All right. I’ll do it. Eyes wide open and Devil take the hindmost.”",
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