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Originally Posted by August
Sort of like the phrase: "Devil to pay" which according to author Patrick O'Brian originally referred to caulking (paying) the outermost deck plank (the devil) that joins the main deck to the hull of a ship. The original quote: "There's a devil to pay and no pitch hot".
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Or not.
http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-dev1.htm
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