The phrase "do mischief" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means to cause trouble or harm. You can use it in sentences like: - The mischievous child loves to do mischief wherever he goes. - The new puppy did mischief by chewing on my favorite shoes. - I warned him not to do mischief, but he didn't listen. - The group of teenagers did mischief by spray painting graffiti on the walls. - Playing pranks on coworkers is not a harmless joke, it is still considered doing mischief.
Others are getting into trouble: fighting or smashing windows or hatching drink-fuelled plans to do mischief.
They could, he said, lay in the woods and take opportunity to do mischief when the English were about their occasions.
Though the war-crimes tribunal in The Hague is starting to make progress, all but a handful of the 75 indicted suspects remain at large, some to do mischief.
Strict liability statutes are proliferating the world over and survive alongside judge-made rules such as that enunciated by the English decision of Ryland v. Fletcher (1868), which held that anyone who in the course of "non-natural" use of his land accumulates thereon for his own purposes anything likely to do mischief if it escapes is answerable for all direct damage thereby caused.
He added: "I welcome the end of the Boston Belfast Project, indicated by the college's offer to now return the interviews to the interviewees before the 'securocrats' who cannot live with the peace seek to seize the rest of the archive and do mischief".
Caesar interrupted him in his speech, and told him, "that he had not left his province to do mischief [to any man], but to protect himself from the injuries of his enemies; to restore to their dignity the tribunes of the people who had been driven out of the city on his account, and to assert his own liberty, and that of the Roman people, who were oppressed by a few factious men.
Maybe it is Stalin's ghost that is doing mischief in most of the republics of the former Soviet Union.
C stands for Cupid, that wounder of hearts, D for with which he does mischief, his Darts.
The cabinet will be scrutinised for evidence of whether Jokowi really is his own man.The red-and-whites have already done mischief.
In the early 1990s, Gilead believed that it could develop a new class of drugs, called antisense, that would block harmful genes from doing mischief.
Or if an article calculated to cause damage is put in a wrong place and does mischief, I think that those whose duty it was to put it in the right place are prima facie responsible, and if there is any state of facts to rebut the presumption of negligence, they must prove them.
