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Italian
Etymology
Literally, “to do the devil at four”.
Verb
fàre il diavolo a quattro (first-person singular present fàccio il diavolo a quattro, first-person singular past historic féci il diavolo a quattro, past participle fàtto il diavolo a quattro, first-person singular imperfect facévo il diavolo a quattro, second-person singular imperative fài il diavolo a quattro or fà' il diavolo a quattro, auxiliary avére)
- (idiomatic) to raise hell
2020, Barack Obama, chapter 24, in Chicca Galli, Paolo Lucca, Giuseppe Maugeri, transl., Una terra promessa [A Promised Land], Garzanti Libri:Il nostro problema... era che finché i repubblicani continuavano a resistere alle nostre aperture e facevano il diavolo a quattro persino di fronte alla proposta più moderata...- Our problem... was that so long as Republicans uniformly resisted our overtures and raised hell over even the most moderate of proposals...
- (literally, “Our problem... was that so long as the Republicans continued to resist our overturesand raised hell over even our most moderate proposal...”)