We have no meanings for "very dickens" in our records yet.
1 Anyhow, there was the very dickens to pay.
2 And habits are the very dickens to change!
3 This was the very dickens (or whatever the Elcuanam equivalent may be), for poor Pio!
4 Because he can go like the very dickens , and I want to keep an eye on Tex myself.
6 Helen was awfully cut up when I went back on the Pagans, and as for Ninitta, I've played the very dickens with her.
7 "But surely, sir, I heard the very dickens of a row?"
8 "These school reports," said Psmith sympathetically, "are the very dickens .
9 "Ticking tuppences away like the very dickens , too!"
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