Sell Your Soul (to The Devil) - Longman Dictionary

English English English - Japanese English - Korean English - Spanish Japanese - English Spanish - English English English - Japanese English - Korean English - Spanish Japanese - English Spanish - English English 日本語 Español latino 한국어 sell your soul (to the devil) From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishsell your soul (to the devil)sell your soul (to the devil)BAD BEHAVIOUR OR ACTIONSto agree to do something bad in exchange for money, power etc → sellExamples from the Corpussell your soul (to the devil)• He doesn't accuse us of selling our souls.• If he were mine, I would rather sell my soul.• Timothy was agonising over her, when Honor West would have sold her soul for a single kiss from him.• The fact that we would literally sell our soul to Continental Airlines.• Men who have sold their souls to the darkness.• She was accused of being a Salem witch for selling her soul to the devil at the strawberry banks.• Faustus wilfully ends himself; he sells his soul to the devil. Exercises Exercises

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