Brewer's: Play the Deuce

The Irish say, Play the pooka. Pooka or Pouke is an evil spirit in the form of a wild colt, who does great hurt to benighted travellers.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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