raise the dickens
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Under the microscope, the bobbypins were found to have sawtooth edges that "raise the dickens with teeth."
From Time Magazine Archive
They’ll raise the dickens if I stay here any longer.
From The Moonlit Way by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
"Them flyin' chunks raise the dickens sometimes," he observed.
From Big Timber A Story of the Northwest by Bertrand W. Sinclair
“D’you remember the prophecy I made the day you took your office—that you would raise the dickens in this old town?”
From Counsel for the Defense by Charles M. Chapman
"And be thankful you haven't got a man to raise the dickens when the bill comes in."
From Buttered Side Down: Stories by Edna Ferber
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