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单词 to raise hob
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to raise hob
b. to play hob: to ‘play the devil’, work mischief. Also to raise hob. Chiefly U.S.
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1838 N.-Y. Mirror 2 June 387/1 They say it's playing hob with the fellers in these here parts.
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) xxvi. 213 I need not say that the cold metal played hob with the tinkers.
1905 B. Tarkington In Arena 23 I believe that idiot's right, he won't lose votes by playing hob with us.
1911 J. C. Lincoln Cap'n Warren's Wards vi. 88 Theoph's been raising hob because the Odd Fellows built on to their building.
1916 H. L. Wilson Somewhere in Red Gap iii. 120 He looked like one of them silly little critters that play hob with Rip Van Winkle..before he goes to sleep.
1927 P. Marks Lord of Himself xvi. 244 Carl parked the car and stowed the flask in the door-pocket before speaking, and then he murmured sympathetically, ‘It [sc. liquor] played hob with you, didn't it, old girl?’
1935 M. de la Roche Young Renny xxv. 219 It's the food you eat without enjoyment that plays hob with your stomach.
1940 D. A. Lord Our Lady in Mod. World iii. 141 The revolutionists who are playing hob with our generation are really masters of the obsolete.
1949 Chicago Tribune 14 June ii. 1/1 The change in time on the new quiz programs is raising hob with getting the evening chores finished.
1967 Electronics 6 Mar. 352/2 The Chinese presumably could raise hob..with vlf transmission to submarines from the base at North West Cape.
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