Each was out to get what he could forhimself, and devil take the hindmost.

每个人都挖空心思得到他所能得到的，俗话说“落后者遭殃”（Devil take the hindmost）。

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Once you breach that wall, God help you, and the devil take the hindmost.

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I'm a propagandist for the idea that if everybody says, "The devil take the hindmost, " the devil soon works his way to the head of the line.

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And that defiant lyric - that devil-take-the hindmost repudiation of all regret - means the opposite of what the words say.

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