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Raising hell   /rˈeɪzɪŋ hɛl/   Listen
Raising hell

noun
1.
Making trouble just for the fun of it.  Synonym: hell raising.





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... declared, "I rather think I'd be classed as a philosopher; if you could call a man a philosopher who can enjoy hammering over this bald country, chasing up whisky-runners and hazing non-treaty Indians onto reservations, and raising hell generally in the name of the law. Still, I don't take life as seriously as I used to. What's the use? We eat and drink and sleep and work and fight because it's the nature of us two-legged brutes; but there's no use getting excited about it, because things never turn out exactly the ...
— Raw Gold - A Novel • Bertrand W. Sinclair
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Words linked to "Raising hell" :   aggression


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