the dickens
Example Sentences
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The play is called “Love of the Game” because, basically, the receiver just runs like the dickens and hopes to draw enough attention to free up other receivers.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 2022
This would not be too bad, except we have very high ceilings and it echoes like the dickens.
From Slate • Jan. 10, 2019
He knows that “An Inconvenient Truth” scared the dickens out of some people.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 4, 2017
“He’s a human being. Little mistakes are made, different words are used – and everybody does it. As far as I can see, he’s trying the dickens to do a good job.”
From The Guardian • May 19, 2017
So I went to Suffolk looking for Frances and her mother who could cook like the dickens.
From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride
