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I’ve decided to use the name “vocab builder” for episodes that deal primarily with vocabulary. This is where you can build your vocabulary with me. Let’s see if the name “Vocab Builder”sticks.  \nThis vocab builder episode deals with phrases, idioms and collocations featuring the word devil. We have quite a lot of expressions in English with this word. Do you know them? Do you use them?  \nI recently released episode 666 of LEP, which contains some stuff about the devil and evil things, not that I’m into that stuff particularly but it felt like an appropriate topic for episode 666 , and while preparing the episode I thought of lots of common expressions with this word, and so I decided to make a premium episode about them, and now you’re listening to it. Hooray!  \nAs I said earlier, there are loads of expressions in the English language that feature the word devil-but I’m not going to cover them all here because many of them are not really used alot these days. A lot of them have become quite old fashioned.  \nSo I’ve decided to narrow the list down to include only the phrases which I think people still use these days.  \nI use all of the phrases I’m going to teach here and I hear other people using them, I hear them in songs, notice them in books, in TV series, in films and in other places.  \nAs we go through this I’m going to do the usual thing of explaining what these phrases mean, how they are used and then I’ll give you as much information and as many examples as I think are necessary to really help you understand and learn the phrases properly, plus some questions to help you practise using them and of course the usual test and pronunciation drills, which will probably arrive in a separate episode.  \nJust to be clear  \nNormally in these vocab builder episodes, I take all the target language from an episode of LEP, but I haven’t done that this time. I’ve just selected some phrases based on the fact that they all contain the same word. So, I don’t think James or I used any of these phrases in episode 666. That’s probably because we don’t use these phrases for talking about evil things.  \nThese expressions are not rude or evil  \nThese expressions are not used to talk about the devil or to talk about evil things in  \nparticular, mostly-except maybe the adjective devilish and the adverb devilishly. Except for  \nP23 [ 1/3] VOCAB BUILDER: Devil ( Idioms and Expressions)  \n2  \nthem, these are expressions which are commonly used to refer to all sorts of things in normal conversation. For example-talking about the importance of paying attention to small details, a technique for taking an objective view of things, being confident and taking risks, compromising your integrity for money, making a choice between two negative options.  \nThat’s quite a diverse range of meanings. Some negative, some not. The point is-despite the presence of the word devil here, these are not expressions we use to talk about evil or nasty things per se.  \nThey’re not rude expressions. They’re not offensive expressions. They’re just ordinary phrases which just happen to include the word devil.  \nI could do similar “vocab builder” episodes with many other words. I could choose a random word, like for example the word cake (A piece of cake, to have your cake and eat it) or apple (the apple of my eye, adam’s apple, the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, an apple a day, how do you like them apples, one bad apple, upset the applecart) and maybe I should in future episodes. But in this case, the word is devil.  \nTo prepare for this episode I have used my usual favourite 5 dictionaries online The Oxford Dictionary for Learners of English, Collins Dictionary online, the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English online, the Cambridge Dictionary online and the Macmillan Dictionary online (a","cbCaihNhRhfXPCJg","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaihNhRhfXPCJg","pdf",415892,13,"English","# Target language\n## Core idea: expressions with “devil” in everyday use\n## What “devil” means\n## Selected phrases\n## Adjective/adverb collocations","[{\"question\":\"What is the focus of this vocab builder episode series 23?\",\"answer\":\"It focuses on building vocabulary by teaching multi-word phrases, idioms, and collocations that include the word “devil.”\"},{\"question\":\"Does the episode teach expressions that are rude or offensive?\",\"answer\":\"No. The episode emphasizes that these expressions are ordinary phrases used in normal conversation and are not specifically rude or offensive.\"},{\"question\":\"How is the meaning of “devil” explained before the idioms?\",\"answer\":\"It explains “The Devil” as an evil figure in religion, then notes meanings such as an evil spirit or someone who behaves badly, and connects this to how the word functions in many phrases.\"}]","VOCAB BUILDER: Devil - Idioms and Expressions - Computer Version | PDF",1790608359,33]