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play hell with
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Verb
play hell with (third-person singular simple present plays hell with, present participle playing hell with, simple past and past participle played hell with)
- Synonym of play the devil with.
- 1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 14:
- For the third time I played hell with the bell. As I lay waiting I could hear a sort of murmurousness beyond the door.
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