devil's grip

American  

noun

Pathology.

1. pleurodynia.

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Etymology

Origin of devil's grip

First recorded in 1885–90

Example Sentences

In every account, he said the idea for “The Exorcist” was planted in 1949, when he was a student at the Jesuit-affiliated Georgetown University in Washington and read an account in The Washington Post of an exorcism in suburban Washington under the headline “Priest Frees Mt. Rainier Boy Reported Held in Devil’s Grip.”

From New York Times

Loosening the Devil’s Grip in Louisiana The Devil is in the entrails in “The Last Exorcism,” an unusually restrained and genuinely eerie little movie perched at the intersection of faith, folklore and female puberty.

From New York Times

Dominie, 93 either Mr. Dishart wasna weel, or he was in the devil’s grip.”

From Project Gutenberg

This was the pleasant weather I selected for my visit to the "Devil's Grip"—that was the name of the town-land where the house stood; and no bad name either, for, 'faith, if he hadn't his paw on it, it might have gone in law,-like the rest of the property.

From Project Gutenberg

However, I got out of temper with the place; and so I sat down and wrote a long advertisement for the English papers, describing the Devil's Grip as a little terrestrial paradise, in the midst of picturesque scenery, a delightful neighbourhood, and an Arcadian peasantry, the whole to be parted with—-a dead bargain—as the owner was about to leave the country.

From Project Gutenberg