Must needs

[Scot LaFaive]

But there is one named "DevilDriver."

Scot

On Jan 21, 2008 9:20 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:

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