Demand stayed high, and they played merry hell with supply.

"But we ought to be able to play merry hell with the present."

Then there would be merry hell for a while: a necessary challenge.

They raised merry hell with the nursing homes in Texas.

Time travel can play merry hell with cause and effect.

What a merry hell you must have made for Ashley!

The place was burning merry hell in a minute and a half.

It would play merry hell with their groups' coordination, but that was better than them not being there at all.

Troops like that could raise merry hell behind enemy lines.

We've got enough on him now to raise merry hell with a murder case.