The phrase "a rascal and a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone in a playful or mischievous manner, often implying that the person has a cheeky or naughty character.
Example: "He may be a rascal and a troublemaker, but we can't help but love his adventurous spirit."
Alternatives: "a scamp and a" or "a rogue and a".
He was a brilliant and visionary psychologist, and also a trickster, a rascal, and a provocateur.
He had a special animus for Gandhi, describing him as a "rascal" and a "half-naked" "fakir".
"But Abel, though a treble, was a rascal and a rebel, fond of getting into trouble when he didn't have to sing.
From now on I shall be the whore of the rabble.' " Griet Reyniers married Anthony van Salee, known as the Turk, a pirate from Morocco whom one resident called "a rascal and a horned beast".
In "Bubble Trouble," for example, in which a mischievous baby is caught in a bubble and blown toward a church where a choir is rehearsing, she wrote: "But Abel, though a treble, was a rascal and a rebel, fond of getting into trouble when he didn't have to sing/Pushing quickly through the people, Abel clambered up the steeple with nefarious intentions and a pebble in his sling".
Here's a photo of one of the slain birds, followed by French's note: Whooping crane chicks have definite personalities; chick L10 was shy but blossomed into a rascal, and chick L8 had an early tendency toward being a bit of a bully, but eventually learned to get along with his peers.
He defied the doubters by commissioning the Slumdog Millionaire director, Danny Boyle, to produce a mash-up of Mary Poppins, Dizzee Rascal, and a skydiving Queen, which delighted even the least patriotic viewers.
Our children took immediately to their gentle mounts -- Cameron had an appaloosa named Rascal, and Lachlan a chestnut called B. E. Red -- and proved more confident and competent than I'd expected.
The two main characters in the story — Sergeant Brown, a portly detective, and Canavan, a rascal "from a family a long while notorious" — are locked in an almost elemental struggle, as Brown pursues the elusive Canavan through the country of the Ox.
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet The two main characters in the story — Sergeant Brown, a portly detective, and Canavan, a rascal "from a family a long while notorious" — are locked in an almost elemental struggle, as Brown pursues the elusive Canavan through the country of the Ox.
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