the devil a one

短语

释义与例句

pron.
  1. 1.

    Not a single one, none (of a number of people or things).

    过时 习语 俚语

    1912, George A. Birmingham, Priscilla’s Spies, New York: Hodder and Stoughton, G.H. Doran, Chapter 14, pp. 183-184, Jimmy says it’s hard to tell what she’d be after. He did think at the first go off that it might be cockles; but it’s not, for he took her to Carribee strand, where there’s plenty of them, and the devil a one she’d pick up.

  2. 2.

    Not; with a singular pronoun, negates the clause.

    过时 习语 俚语

    The devil a one of me will ever set foot there.