Temptation Phrases

Phrases

• Alligator bait (a reference to the alleged practice of using black babies to lure alligators into traps)
• Bait and switch
• Beelzebub has the devil for a sideboard (misheard lyric from Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody)
• Better the Devil you know than the Devil you don't
• Between the Devil and the deep blue sea
• Click bait (an eye ctaching word or image on a website)
• Cut bait
• Devil in Disguise (Elvis Presley song)
• Devil may care
• Don't Stand So Close To Me (Police song)
• Every man for himself and the devil take the hindmost
• Fish or cut bait
• Full of the devil
• Give the Devil his due
• Go to the Devil
• He must needs go that the Devil drives
• He who sups with the Devil should use a long spoon
• He will give the Devil his due
• I can resist everything except temptation (Oscar Wilde quotation)
• In league with the Devil
• Jail bait
• Lead into temptation
• Like the devil
• Little devil
• Luck of the Devil
• Make a deal with the devil
• Needs must when the Devil drives

• Parsley seed goes nine times to the devil
• Play devil's advocate
• Raise the devil
• Rise to the bait
• Sell your soul to the devil
• Speak of the devil
• Supping with the Devil
• Sympathy For The Devil (Rolling Stones song)
• Take the bait
• Talk of the Devil
• Talk of the Devil, and he is bound to appear
• Tell the truth and shame the Devil
• The Adventure of the Devil's Foot (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Devil Wears Prada (Lauren Weisberger book)
• The Devil finds work for idle hands to do
• The Devil has all the best tunes
• The Devil is in the detail
• The Devil made me do it
• The Devil take the hindmost
• The Devil take you
• The Devil to pay
• The Devil's Disciple (Bernard Shaw play and Burt Lancaster movie)
• The Pazmanian Devil (Nickname of Vinny Paz)
• The devil looks after his own
• The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak
• What the devil?
• While you live, tell truth and shame the Devil!