...head, there will be the devil to pay, and no pitch hot. 1922: Wcyman, Oi'ington's Bank, ch xxvi. 88. The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be; The devil was well, the devil a monk was he. | c. 1450: W. Bower, Scutichronicon, ii 292 (Goodall), quoted in N.&Q., 8th ser, xii 331, I .upus langucbat...