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Meanings of play the dickens in English

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Usage of play the dickens in English
1
Love-making would play the dickens with the studies.
Isabel Leicester / A Romance by Maude Alma
2
They both play the dickens with your digestion.
Joyce of the North Woods
3
They play the dickens with a fellow's wind.
The Bent Twig
4
And we've got to get in there before the snow begins to fly, or it will play the dickens with us.
North of Fifty-Three
5
Mothers hed n't hardly ought to name their boy babies Claude without they expect 'em to play the dickens with the girls.
Homespun Tales
6
What really plays the dickens with us is some thing in ourselves.
Dear Brutus
7
The desert plays the dickens with the strongest nerves.
There was a King in Egypt
8
In the interval which had elapsed since their last conversation yeasty emotions had been playing the dickens with his self-control.
The Man with Two Left Feet, and Other Stories
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