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El diablo estaba enfermo (The Devil Was Sick) es un relato fantástico del escritor norteamericano Bruce Elliot (1914-1973), publicado originalmente en la edición de abril de 1951 de la revista The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, y luego reeditado en la antología de 1958: Pactos con el diablo (Deals with the Devil). El diablo estaba ...
Enunciado: The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be; the devil was well, the devil a monk was he. ( Bohn p. 502; Apperson p. 142; Ridout nº 114) Traducción literal: El diablo estaba enfermo, fue un monje; el diablo estaba bien, fue el mal de un monje.
Manser's Dictionary of Everyday Idioms (revised 1997) says the devil - used as an answer to a statement to express anger, disbelief, or other strong feeling. So basically, when the Devil was sick he acted like a saint, but no way did he keep that up when he was well.
9780199539536. Published online: 2009. Current Online Version: 2009. eISBN: 9780191727740. Find at OUP.com. Google Preview. The devil was sick, the Devil a saint would be; the Devil was well, the devil a saint was he! Promises made in adversity may not be kept in prosperity. Cf. medieval L. aegrotavit daemon, monachus tunc esse volebat; daemon ...
EL DIABLO ESTABA ENFERMO Bruce Elliot THE DEVIL WAS SICK, Bruce Elliot. Copyright 1951 by Fantasy House, Inc.. Permission by the author. Traducción de Jaime Pi ...
The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be; The devil was well, the devil a monk was he. People who make pious resolutions in time of illness or peril forget all about them when they are healthy and safe again. John Owen wrote this epigram:
'THE DEVIL A BIT' The Devil was sick, the Devil a Monk would be, The Devil was well, the Devil a Monk was he. In the article DEVIL of the N.E.D. we read the following: 21. Expressing a strong negation: prefixed to a substantive, as the devil a bit, the devil a penny. Then follow ten examples, the first dated 1508, the last 1803, all of them ...
