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• Used to emphasize great size or degree.

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  • ‘photographic equipment costs a devil of a lot’
  • ‘‘It gave me a devil of a lot of trouble’, said Morris, ‘to get that thing into verse’.’
  • ‘We are sure that such things must exist, but have a devil of a time pinning them down - as detailed rules, they are not generally understood at all.’
  • ‘President Theodore Roosevelt, in a private brief interview, had confided that "affairs are in a devil of a mess."’
  • ‘Working out the ‘bugs’ in this plan is going to be a devil of a headache.’