it means roughly "drive out the greater evil with the lesser one"



At 03:26 PM 2/10/98 -0600, Tim Olson wrote:
>> BTW, can somebody provide me with a translation of the german expression 
>>   "den Teufel mit dem Beelzebub austreiben"? 
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>AltaVista translations 
>(http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/translate?) translates it 
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>     "the devil with the Beelzebub drive out"
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>whatever the heck that means! ;-)
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