16 Metaphors for deuces

"Just what we had to have," says he, "an' I'm supposed to pay the tolls; Nine dollars an' a half forsay, what the deuce are camisoles?

Where the deuce is that Ex Yardsley (grasping him by the arm and pushing him out).

"What the deuce is the matter with me?" said I, inwardly.

"There's the 'invisible' thing that used the dagger, but who the deuce is the person who sets the trap?"

What the deuce is the mystery?" "Whatwhy, of course you're the most interested party and the only Little Riversite that don't know about it, seh!"

He seems seriously to have proceeded on Mr. Bays's maxim"What the deuce is a plot good for, but to bring in fine things?"Probability and perspicuity of narrative are sacrificed with the utmost indifference to the desire of producing effect; and provided the author can but contrive to "surprize and elevate," he appears to think that he has done his duty to the public.

Now who the deuce is this Van Koon, and what was that Mrs. Marlow, alias Miss Slade, doing in his rooms last night when he was out?" He was exercising his brains over a possible solution of this problem when Fullaway suddenly appeared in the hall behind him, accompanied by a man whom Allerdyke at once took to be the very individual about whom he was speculating.

They say he's mad about her still, gives her no rest, follows her everywhere, is all the time begging her to return to him" "But who the deuce is the beast?"

"What the deuce is her elementthe Quartier Latin?" "The Quartier Latin is to some extent her habitatbut then Mam'selle Josephine belongs to a genus of which you, cher Monsieur Arbuthnot, are deplorably ignorantthe genus grisette.

So am I. What the deuce are dusters, for this occasion only?

How the deuce was I to get out of it when the cove wanted the very clothes off my back?' 'Tut, man; you knew that the beak and the guards were within a mile of you.

It was clear that I had ascended the stairs, but how the deuce I had got down was the question.

"What the deuce is her elementthe Quartier Latin?" "The Quartier Latin is to some extent her habitatbut then Mam'selle Josephine belongs to a genus of which you, cher Monsieur Arbuthnot, are deplorably ignorantthe genus grisette.

Now, who the deuce was Bibi?

Where the deuce is that Gibson? Dorothy.

Where the deuce is my hat, Malins?

16 Metaphors for  deuces