Synonyms for the dickens
the dick·ens

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1. the dickensadverb

   Synonyms:
   the devil, on earth, the heck, the hell

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1. John Berger:

   Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn't changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.

2. Oliver North:

   The problem that we've got is, we're trying like the dickens to treat the symptom without treating the disease, and the disease in this case isn't the Second Amendment ; the disease is youngsters who are steeped in a culture of violence, they've been drugged in many cases. Nearly all of these perpetrators are male, and they're young teenagers in most cases, and they've come through a culture where violence is commonplace.

3. Ali Carter:

   I'm chief of staff to Andre Dickens, oK, well you still have a warrant for your arrest.

4. Dimitrios Pagourtzis:

   We are trying like the dickens to treat the symptoms, not the disease, the disease isn’t the Second Amendment.

5. Joseph Brodsky:

   For aesthetics is the mother of ethics. Were we to choose our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programs, there would be much less grief on earth. I believe-not empirically, alas, but only theoretically-that for someone who has read a lot of Dickens to shoot his like in the name of an idea is harder than for someone who has read no Dickens.