| 单词 | to raise merry hell |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto raise (also kick up, play, etc.) merry hell (b) to raise (also kick up, play, etc.) merry hell and variants: to create a disturbance or upheaval; to cause great trouble, pain, or suffering. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > excitement > riotous excitement > behave with riotous excitement [verb (intransitive)] rehayte1526 tear1602 to play up1849 to whoop things up1873 to raise sand1892 to raise (also kick up, play, etc.) merry hell1931 to go ape1955 to go (also drive) bananas1957 1821 P. Egan Real Life in London I. 195 So drunk, that they keep merry hell in a roar.] a1911 D. G. Phillips Susan Lenox (1917) II. xi. 279 We don't dare let you off... They'd send down along the line, to have merry hell raised with us. 1931 D. L. Sayers Five Red Herrings xxii. 248 I am supposed to have faked an alibi, suborned my friends and played merry hell generally. 1938 S. V. Benét Thirteen o'Clock iv. 268 If you think it was all romance..you're wrong. A lot of it was merry hell. 1963 Landfall Mar. 9 Watching mum with a shoehorn wedging nines into sevens and suffering merry hell. 1992 S. King Dolores Claiborne (1993) 19 Your wife would give you merry hell about buying that day-old bread. < as lemmas |
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