"devil take the hindmost" meaning in All languages combined

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          "text": "What if a toy take um ith heeles now, and they runn all away, and cry the Divell take the hindmoſt.",
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          "text": "Land Alianable which would bring in the Stock Jobbing Temper, the Devill take the Hindmost.",
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          "ref": "1786, Robert Burns, Address to a Haggis:",
          "text": "Then, horn for horn, they stretch an strive:\nDeil tak the hindmost, on they drive,\nTill a’ their weel-swall’d kytes belyve\nAre bent like drums;\nThe auld Guidman, maist like to rive,\n‘Bethankit’ hums.",
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          "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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          "text": "\"Oh, don't talk to me about your socialists, I've got no patience with them,\" she cried. \"It only means that another lot of lazy loafers will make a good thing out of the working classes. My motto is, leave me alone; I don't want anyone interfering with me; I'll make the best of a bad job, and the devil take the hindmost.\"",
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          "text": "Choose your hand, try your best. He who wins, wins it all. Devil take the hindmost."
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          "word": "every man for himself"
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          "word": "Devil take the hindmost"
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          "word": "the Devil take the hindmost"
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          "word": "the devil take the hindmost"
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          "word": "jääkööt kaikki oman onnensa nojaan"
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          "word": "każdy zajmuje się sobą"
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      "word": "jääkööt kaikki oman onnensa nojaan"
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