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单词 to make mischief
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to make mischief
P4. to make mischief [compare Anglo-Norman and Middle French faire meschief] : to create or promote discord or dissension, esp. by gossiping or talebearing. Cf. mischief-maker n.
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society > society and the community > dissent > be in dissension or at variance [verb (intransitive)] > cause dissension
to make strife1303
to make the feathers flyc1430
to stir the coals1539
to make mischiefc1572
to blow the bellows1590
to blow the fire1670
to stir the pot1826
to stir (also rouse) the possum1900
to mix it1950
c1572 G. Gascoigne Fruites of Warre in Compl. Wks. (1907–10) I. 179 And yet in warres, such graffes of grudge do growe, Such lewdnesse lurkes, such malice makes mischief.
1653 Duchess of Newcastle Poems & Fancies 188 No sad example he by warning takes, If none will do him hurt, some mischief makes.
1760–1 C. Lennox Ladies Museum I. 587 But this I keep to myself, for I would not make mischief.
1817 W. Scott Rob Roy II. xiv. 311 It's ill-scrapit tongues like your's, that make mischief atween neighbourhoods and nations.
1884 Cassell's Family Mag. May 374 She was always making mischief between them [sc. two lovers].
1956 ‘J. Wyndham’ Seeds of Time 87 Passengers, having nothing to occupy them, were always making mischief one way and another.
1992 Sunday Times of India 19 Apr. 1/2 Mr Chavan also warned Pakistan of a befitting reply in case that country ventured to make mischief on our borders.
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