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单词 like the mischief
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like the mischief
c. euphemistic. The Devil. In phrases and questions, as to play the mischief (with), to go to the mischief, like the mischief, what (also how, etc.) the (or a) mischief——?, etc. Now colloquial and regional.
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1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique ii. f. 81 Why, Gods mother..doest thou aske me how I gotte in, nay tel me rather in the mischief how I shal gette out.
1583 C. Hollyband Campo di Fior 283 What the mischiefe is this that thou hast for thy sadelle?
a1625 J. Fletcher Wit without Money (1639) v. sig. I2 Ith name of mischiefe what did you meane.
1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre i. v. 10 in Wks. II What, the mischiefe, doe you come with her? or shee with you?
1722 J. Swift in J. Duncombe Lett. Several Eminent Persons Deceased (1773) II. 5 I wonder how a mischief you came to miss us.
1780 J. O'Keeffe Tony Lumpkin in Town ii. 21 What the mischief could bring his boots into my lady's dressing-room?
1807 Salmagundi 18 Apr. 147 This unlucky characteristic played the mischief with him in one of his love affairs.
1818 S. E. Ferrier Marriage I. xv. 202 Boys may go to the mischief, and be good for something.
1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan I. ii. 28 Her large eyes would sparkle—so the men ‘allowed’—like the mischief.
a1849 J. Keegan Legends & Poems (1907) 489 Dandy Delaney and his family grew rich all at once. People..wondered how the mischief he grew so ‘unbeholden’ in a moment.
1866 A. Trollope Belton Estate III. ix. 239 Why the mischief should he not set about the work at once?
1892 R. Kipling Barrack-room Ballads 24 You 'eathen, where the mischief 'ave you been?
1907 J. M. Synge Lett. to Molly (1971) 123 I am coughing away like the mischief today.
1923 E. Phillpotts Cherry-stones 67 What the mischief we creates But trouble, taxes, higher rates, Be damned to us if I can see.
1981 L. A. Pederson et al. Ling. Atlas Gulf States 0177/092 [Georgia] You've got to work like the mischief.
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