('US') It 'scared/frightened the dickens' out of people. [=scared people very badly]
We'll have to work 'like the dickens' [=very hard] to finish this project.
('US') She's as 'cute as the dickens'. [=she's very cute]
(..) I don't drive cross country. But if you did. But I don't. Yeah, but supposing for a second that you did. You little dickens, you. I know what your problem is. What's that? Ya'll think us folks from the country's funny-like, don't you? - Jerry... (..)2003 House of 1000 Corpses