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. William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 3 scene 2:

   I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.

3. 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.

4. Archibald MacLeish:

   The American mood, perhaps even the American character, has changed. There are few manifestations any longer of the old American self-assurance which so irritated Dickens. Instead, there is a sense of frustration so perceptible that even our politicians have attempted to exploit it.

5. Michael Caine:

   Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.