What (in) the devil?

What (in) the devil?
What (in) the devil? & What (in) the dickens?
Inf. What has happened?; What? (Often with the force of an exclamation.) •

What in the devil? Who put sugar in the salt shaker?

What the dickens? Who are you? What are you doing in my room?


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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