单词 | what a mischief——? |
释义 | > as lemmaswhat a mischief——? ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > greatly or very much [phrase] > extremely like mada1375 with a mischief1538 (as) — as anything1542 with a vengeance1568 with a siserary1607 (to be pleased) to a feathera1616 in (the) extremea1616 with the vengeance1693 to a degree1740 like hell1776 like the devil1791 like winky1830 like billy-o1885 (like) seven shades of ——1919 like a bandit1943 on wheels1943 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Addicion at Abi in malam rem Go hens with a mischefe. 1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus (at cited word) Malus, Quid tua (malum) id refert? what, with a mischiefe, haste thou to doe with it? 1572 T. Smith Let. 11 Dec. in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1846) 3rd Ser. IV. 8 What a mischeefe meanethe hee to write unto mee of new Starres and Astronomers, and telleth me nothinge of my comeing home? 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Chemise Hee raised them with a mischiefe, roused them with a vengeance. 1630 J. Taylor Wks. ii. 96/2 The matronly medicines..of this..woman, will in a little time make her encrease with a vengeance, and multiply with a mischiefe. 1640 T. Nabbes Bride iii. ii Y'are welcome with a mischiefe to the occasion that brought you hither. 1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel III. iii. 85 Bide doun, with a mischief to ye. 1849 tr. F. Sacchritti in U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. Apr. 315 M. Valore turned to him and exclaimed: ‘Go with a mischief [It. malanno]. Who the devil is this boy?’ what (also how, etc.) the (or a) mischief——? c. euphemistic. The Devil. In phrases and questions, as to play the mischief (with), to go to the mischief, like the mischief, what (also how, etc.) the (or a) mischief——?, etc. Now colloquial and regional. ΚΠ 1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique ii. f. 81 Why, Gods mother..doest thou aske me how I gotte in, nay tel me rather in the mischief how I shal gette out. 1583 C. Hollyband Campo di Fior 283 What the mischiefe is this that thou hast for thy sadelle? a1625 J. Fletcher Wit without Money (1639) v. sig. I2 Ith name of mischiefe what did you meane. 1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre i. v. 10 in Wks. II What, the mischiefe, doe you come with her? or shee with you? 1722 J. Swift in J. Duncombe Lett. Several Eminent Persons Deceased (1773) II. 5 I wonder how a mischief you came to miss us. 1780 J. O'Keeffe Tony Lumpkin in Town ii. 21 What the mischief could bring his boots into my lady's dressing-room? 1807 Salmagundi 18 Apr. 147 This unlucky characteristic played the mischief with him in one of his love affairs. 1818 S. E. Ferrier Marriage I. xv. 202 Boys may go to the mischief, and be good for something. 1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan I. ii. 28 Her large eyes would sparkle—so the men ‘allowed’—like the mischief. a1849 J. Keegan Legends & Poems (1907) 489 Dandy Delaney and his family grew rich all at once. People..wondered how the mischief he grew so ‘unbeholden’ in a moment. 1866 A. Trollope Belton Estate III. ix. 239 Why the mischief should he not set about the work at once? 1892 R. Kipling Barrack-room Ballads 24 You 'eathen, where the mischief 'ave you been? 1907 J. M. Synge Lett. to Molly (1971) 123 I am coughing away like the mischief today. 1923 E. Phillpotts Cherry-stones 67 What the mischief we creates But trouble, taxes, higher rates, Be damned to us if I can see. 1981 L. A. Pederson et al. Ling. Atlas Gulf States 0177/092 [Georgia] You've got to work like the mischief. < as lemmas |
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