don rumfeld's colloquial language

[Grant Barrett]

I particularly liked his "way in the dickens out of line" yesterday.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020508/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe
/rumsfeld_army_19

"Dickens" is apparently a favorite of his:

"get the al Qaeda and the Taliban the dickens out of Kabul"
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Nov2001/t11112001_t1111ftn.html

"It's like trying to drive a 1937 Oldsmobile. It's interesting, but it's
expensive as the dickens."
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Feb2002/t02142002_t0212npr.html

"If he's alive, he's very busy hiding somewhere, and he is having a dickens
of a time communicating with his people."
http://usinfo.state.gov/regional/nea/sasia/text/0224rmfd1.htm

"They want the al Qaeda the dickens out of their country..."
http://embajadausa.org.ve/wwwh1438.html