MISCHIEF


Meaning of MISCHIEF in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ VERB

get

Just routine, Peter, but we don't want that drunken fool getting into mischief .

I was toddling around at the time getting into mischief the way any normal, healthy three-year-old boy does.

To Léonie she said: no getting up to mischief , d' you hear me?

keep

To keep the supporters out of mischief during the morning, Chapman arranged tours of a local factory and brewery.

School holidays started soon and maybe a pet would help to keep them out of mischief .

Here is his chance to ensure they keep out of mischief .

You just keep yourself out of mischief , saints help you.

make

Or the pookas, emerged on this Christmas Eve to make mischief ?

Along with Win, he was for ever making mischief .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Ann's light brown eyes glimmered with mischief .

criminal mischief

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

But there is still room for considerable mischief by those who oppose the rush to negotiating glory in Clinton's final days.

He would certainly conclude that she was up to some adolescent mischief and take her to task again.

How was he to know that she was up to some sort of mischief ?

Idle hands and heads breed mischief .

Just routine, Peter, but we don't want that drunken fool getting into mischief .

The mischief produced by this institution was incalculable because it made religious differences the deciding factor in every political contest.

The potential for mischief in the international system by politically motivated or overzealous prosecutions is great.

Though by all outward appearances a woman of propriety, she had a penchant for mischief .

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