Knocking On The Devil's Door
On this episode of Appraise The Phrase: Origins of Everyday Expressions...
Six dictionaries have no definition for "knocking on the devil's door." We found out why — and then we found the actual door.
Where does "knocking on the devil's door" come from, and what does it actually mean? Merriam-Webster, Cambridge, Oxford, Collins, dictionary.com and TheFreeDictionary all come up empty — the first phrase in six seasons of this show that no published dictionary will touch. Wiktionary's only nearby entry is "devil's doorbell," which is something else entirely.
So we went looking for the origin…
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