Must needs

[Laurence Horn]

At 9:47 PM -0500 1/16/08, Wilson Gray wrote:
>  Re:"Needs must when the devil drives."
>

Still alive and well at least in England.  Just came across one (with
the above form) in Ruth Rendell's 2007 novel _The Water's Lovely_.
It's a lot like "Necessity is the mother of invention", except that
as far as I know there has never been a rock group named "The Devil
Drives".

LH

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