Up to mischief12/19/2023 ![]() cause mischief (=do things that cause trouble or damage ) Boys were wandering around, out to cause mischief. get into/up to mischief ( also make mischief ) (=do things that cause trouble or damage ) You spend too much time getting into mischief! keep/stay out of mischief (=not do things that cause trouble etc ) Can I trust you to stay our of mischief for half an hour? keep somebody out of mischief (=prevent someone from causing trouble ) Playing football helps keep him out of mischief. COLLOCATIONS – Meanings 1 & 2 verbs be up to mischief (=be doing things that cause trouble or damage ) The children were lively and always up to mischief. 3 → make mischief 4 → do yourself a mischief 5 formal DAMAGE damage or harm that is done to someone or to their property The jury cleared him of the charge of criminal mischief. 2 TRICK/DECEIVE the pleasure or enjoyment of playing tricks on people or embarrassing them Kiki’s eyes were bright with mischief. If you can’t see Nick, you can be sure he’s up to some mischief (=behaving badly and causing trouble or damage ). ![]() They’ve got enough toys to keep them out of mischief for a while. ○○ noun 1 BEHAVE bad behaviour, especially by children, that causes trouble or damage, but no serious harm Now run along, and don’t get into mischief.I have met older people who still believe in love, and I know of very young people who think it is all just some crack-pot institution.From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English mischief mis‧chief / ˈmɪstʃɪf / It is just that time can make you cynical, so elderly people tend to feel this way. I don't think it is so much the elderly, but rather the cynical. The more they love, the more they feel alone" I did not know what Narcissus was, but I looked it up: "Any of several widely cultivated bulbous plants of the genus Narcissus, having long narrow leaves and usually white or yellow flowers characterized by a cup-shaped or trumpet-shaped central crown." This adds so much to the line, for while he is talking about a flower, he could just as easily be talking about man (or a man/woman named after the flower?)īut, to me - he is using the flower to describe a man, head hanging low, contemplating going for a last and final swim, to end his stretch of alone. ![]() Some really effective use of personification. ![]() I found this really challenging - not from the point of reading it.just from the point of view - the ideas, it made me think. ![]()
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