{"id":73280,"date":"2020-03-23T08:04:06","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T08:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=73280"},"modified":"2020-03-23T08:04:06","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T08:04:06","slug":"speak-of-the-devil-english-idioms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/speak-of-the-devil-english-idioms\/","title":{"rendered":"Speak Of The Devil | English Idioms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You are talking about somebody and then that person suddenly appears. In such a situation a native English speaker might say\u00a0<b>speak \/talk of the devil<\/b>. Actually this is an incomplete phrase. The full forms are\u00a0<b>speak of the devil, and he shall appear<\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0<b>talk of the devil, and in he walks<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Many Indians believe that if a person walks in when you are talking about him, he would live to be 100. Interestingly, Indians sometimes say\u00a0<b>a hundred years<\/b>\u00a0in such a context. Remember that native English speakers wouldn\u2019t use this expression. They are also unlikely to understand its meaning if you use it in front of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are talking about somebody and then that person suddenly appears. In such a situation a native English speaker might say\u00a0speak \/talk of the devil. Actually this is an incomplete phrase. The full forms&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[393,2131],"class_list":["post-73280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idioms","tag-english-idioms","tag-speak-of-the-devil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73281,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73280\/revisions\/73281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}