[Ads-l] "play devil's advocate"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Sorry. I meant "avocado."

2003 Stephen Leather _The Eyewitness_  (London: Hodder & Stoughton) (via
Google Books):  "'I'm just playing devil's avocado.' 'Advocate. Devil's
advocate.'

Many, many subsequent Google hits, including a 2018 book title.

JL
-- 
"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth.

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