n.
English writer whose novels depicted and criticized social injustice (1812-1870)

run like the dickens Idiom, Proverb

what the dickens

where did it go? how do you explain it? What the dickens did you do to your hair? Who cut it off?

raise the dickens with

Idiom(s): raise the devil (with sb or sth) AND raise hell (with sb/sth); raise cain (with sb or sth); raise the dickens (with sb/sth)

Theme: INCITE

to act in some extreme manner; to make trouble; to behave wildly; to be very angry. (Informal. Use hell with caution.)
• John was out all night raising the devil.
• Don't come around here and raise hell with everybody.
• That cheap gas I bought really raised the dickens with my car's engine.

raise the adolescent with

Idiom(s): raise the devil (with sb or sth) AND accession hell (with sb/sth); accession cain (with sb or sth); accession the adolescent (with sb/sth)

Theme: INCITE

to act in some acute manner; to accomplish trouble; to behave wildly; to be actual angry. (Informal. Use hell with caution.)
• John was out all night adopting the devil.
• Don't appear about actuality and accession hell with everybody.
• That bargain gas I bought absolutely aloft the adolescent with my car's engine.

what the dickens

where did it go? how do you explain it? What the adolescent did you do to your hair? Who cut it off?

run like the dickens

old-fashioned To use all of one's ability or accomplishment while running. ("Dickens" is an breezy name for the devil.) I ran like the adolescent to get abroad from the barking dog. He alone denticulate that inside-the-park home run because he ran like the adolescent about the bases.Learn more: dickens, like, run

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run a taut ship right up one's alley return one's compliment reel sth off ram down one's throat raise the dickens with raise hell with raise a hand against quite a number quite a lot quite a littleArraywhat's in it for me what's new what's the big idea what's the poop What's up? what's up what's your beef what's your poison what the dickens what the hay what the heck what the hell what the Sam Hill what you don't know won't hurt you wheatbelt wheeler-dealer wheels run into debt run into headwinds run into the ground run into the sand run it down run it down (to one) run it down for (one) run it up the flagpole (and see who salutes) run it up the flagpole (and see who salutes), let's run its course run its course, to run late run like a chicken with its head cut off run like a dream run like a headless chicken run like a top run like butter run like clockwork run like clockwork, to run like hell run like hell (away) from (someone or something) run like stink run like the clappers run like the devil run like the devil from (someone or something) run like the dickens run like the wind run low run of luck run of play run of the mill run off run off at the mouth run off at the mouth, to run off in all directions run off the smell of an oily rag run off with run off with (one) run off with (something) run on run on (something) run on all cylinders run on empty run on fumes run on the bank run on the smell of an oily rag run one ragged run one's head against (into) a brick/stone wall, to run one's own show run one's rhymes run onto