like the dickens Idiom

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.

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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 little like shit through a goose like shooting fish in a barrel like showing a card trick to a dog like showing a dog a card trick like sin like sixty like someone possessed like something the cat brought in like something the cat brought/dragged in like something the cat dragged in like stealing acorns from a blind pig like stink like stink on a monkey/skunk/pig/etc. like taking candy from a baby like taking coals to Newcastle like talking to a wall like that like the back of a bus like the cat that got the cream like the cat that got, stole, etc. the cream like the cat that stole the cream like the cat that's got the cream like the clappers like the deuce like the devil like the dickens like the sound of (one's) own voice like the white on rice like the wind like the wind, go/run like there ain't no tomorrow like there was no tomorrow like there were no tomorrow like there's no tomorrow like to like to hear (oneself) talk like to hear oneself talk like tryin' to scratch your ear with your elbow like trying to nail Jell-O to a cross like trying to nail Jell-O to a tree like trying to nail Jell-O to the wall like trying to scratch your ear with your elbow like turkeys voting for an early Christmas like turkeys voting for Christmas like two peas in a pod like watching grass grow like watching paint dry like water like water off a duck's back like wildfire like, love, etc. the sound of your own voice

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