Dancing with the devil

slipskipslap | 20:37 Tue 14th May 2002 | Phrases & Sayings

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What is the origin and meaning of the saying 'dancing with the devil in the pale moonlight?'

"all girls together" and "jobs for the boys"

french saying

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WaldoMcFroog

As far as I know, the exact phrase was coined in Tim Burton's first Batman movie - it is the phrase uttered by Jack Nicholson's Joker before he kills. Dancing with the devil is a popular image, since the popular notion of pacts with the devil involved satanic masses, orgies, dancing etc... and such things always happened at night.

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