Idiom
dance with the devil
Meaning
To engage in risky and immoral behavior.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“If you cheat on the test, you are dancing with the devil.”
“He knew that borrowing money from dangerous people was dancing with the devil, but he felt he had no other choice.”
“By choosing to ignore the legal warnings and continue his illicit operations, the executive was effectively dancing with the devil, inviting a ruinous investigation upon his firm.”
Examples
simple
“If you cheat on the test, you are dancing with the devil.”
contextual
“He knew that borrowing money from dangerous people was dancing with the devil, but he felt he had no other choice.”
complex
“By choosing to ignore the legal warnings and continue his illicit operations, the executive was effectively dancing with the devil, inviting a ruinous investigation upon his firm.”
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