Old Harry

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Old Harry

  1. (informal) The Devil.
    • 1861, George Eliot, Silas Marner, London: Penguin Books, published 1967, page 131:
      'For if Old Harry's a mind to do a bit o' kindness for a holiday, like, who's got anything against it?'

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