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holy terror

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Noun1.holy terror - a very troublesome childholy terror - a very troublesome child            
brat, little terror, terror
scamp, imp, monkey, rapscallion, rascal, scalawag, scallywag - one who is playfully mischievous
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He isn't the holy terror for mischief he used to be.
Anne's House of Dreams by Montgomery, Lucy Maud View in context
He was a hero as well as a holy terror among the Moslems.
The Man Who Knew Too Much by Chesterton, Gilbert K. View in context
Holmes, and it is the only time that ever I knew what love was-- it fairly drove me mad to think that she was in the power of the greatest brute and bully in South Africa--a man whose name is a holy terror from Kimberley to Johannesburg.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
 
 
 
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