play the devil with
[pleɪ ði ˈdɛvəl wɪð]

v.

搞糟，使失败；

权威例句

The Day the Devil Came to Town to Talk of Politics with the Youngsters (A Play)
Paichnidi Me To Diavolo (Play with the Devil)
Gaming and parenting don't always mix, so I play with the devil | Pol…
Race with the devil: the racial politics of heavy metal music and fandom or, who gets to play with heavy metal, anyway?
Von Neumann with the Devil, translation of a play by L. Gårding from Swedish to Russian
Production of Jan Drda‘s antifascist play Games with the Devil and its anti-totalitarian performance after the Warsaw Pact invasion...
Theatre as a Platform for Consciousness Raising in Sarah Daniels’s Play The Devil’s Gateway
After a month of play, give the Devil Rays their due
Nature Ramblings: Goats Play the Devil
The devil looks ten times worse with a white face: colours in Richard Brome's The English Moor