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speak to evil
what's the meaning of speak to evil? actually my teacher told me when you are talking about a person which arrive there that time you should say: ohh, speak to evil
29 mar 2012 08:02
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I think that your teacher meant "Speak of the devil" which is the short form of the idiom "Speak of the devil and he doth appear". It is used when an object of discussion unexpectedly becomes present during the conversation. For example, if Alice and Bob start discussing Charlie while he isn't in the room, and Charlie walks into the room, Alice or Bob might say, "Speak of the devil!"
29 marzo 2012
/speak of the devil/ ...
It is quite uncommon that the same idiom is shared among languages,
but we say the same (translated) words in Italian, in precesily the same
kind of contexts:
/ parlando del diavolo, spuntano le corna/, which is:
speaking of the devil, the antlers appear.
29 marzo 2012
ok, thanks Maryam! ; )
29 marzo 2012
Exactly the meaning in English!! as jura said
29 marzo 2012
and what does it mean Maryam?
29 marzo 2012
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