| 单词 | the father of mischief |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe father (also mother) of mischief e. the father (also mother) of mischief: the source or begetter of evil or wrongdoing. ΚΠ a1628 J. Carmichaell Coll. Prov. in Scots (1957) No. 1468 The mother of mischief, is na mair nor a midgewing. 1761 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy III. ii. 11 The father of mischief..could not have contrived a worse fashion for one in my father's situation. 1766 B. Franklin Let. 28 Apr. in Wks. (1887) III. 463 I congratulate you on the repeal of that mother of mischiefs, the Stamp Act. 1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe I. i. 15 The mother of mischief confound the ranger of the forest that cuts the foreclaws off our dogs. 1851 N. Hawthorne House of Seven Gables xii. 200 The original perpetrator and father of this mischief..still walks the street. 1880 Amer. Missionary May 141/1 Idleness is the mother of mischief, and what an opportunity such people have to enter into temptation! < as lemmas |
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