play Old Harry

English

play Old Harry

(idiomatic) To play the devil; to make mischief.
- Blenkiron and I have been moving in the best circles as skilled American engineers who are going to play Old Harry with the British on the Tigris. — John Buchan, "Greenmantle", 1916.
- I distinguish five more general classes: but I am far from equally happy about all of them. They are, however, quite enough to play Old Harry with two fetishes which I admit to an inclination to play Old Harry with, viz. (1) the true/false fetish, (2) the value/fact fetish. J. L. Austin, How to do things with words, Oxford 1962.

单词	play Old Harry
释义	play Old Harry English Verb play Old Harry (idiomatic) To play the devil; to make mischief. Blenkiron and I have been moving in the best circles as skilled American engineers who are going to play Old Harry* with the British on the Tigris.* — John Buchan, "Greenmantle", 1916. I distinguish five more general classes: but I am far from equally happy about all of them. They are, however, quite enough to play Old Harry with two fetishes which I admit to an inclination to play Old Harry with, viz. (1) the true/false fetish, (2) the value/fact fetish. J. L. Austin, How to do things with words, Oxford 1962.
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