A Gimlet . . . or other such cocktail
. . . if you drink too many your head
hurts like the dickens.
What the devil is a Dickens??
I thought it had something to do with the
famous author. I just didn’t know what
the relation was. You might be surprised
that the phrase has nothing to do with Charles Dickens, as I assumed it
did. And, since there isn’t any
correlation that explains that!
But that doesn’t clarify what the dickens
the dickens is. Way back in the day when
knights were bold and maidens were fair and all that rot, dickens was a euphemism
for the devil. It started out as devilkins
and was eventually shortened to dickens.
Along the same vein, dickens is very much
like deuce . . . as in What the deuce?!
. . . deuce is another old English name for the Devil.
So, there you have it . . .
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