devil-dodging

OK OK - I'll ban her from devil-dodging and mincing arouhnd the NAAFI in gucci gear too.

Army Rumour Service 2009

From its window could be seen, high above the serried ranks of chimney-pots on the opposite side of the street, those two newly erected buildings: William Carman's chewing gum factory in Hearnes Street, and Mark Goddard's eight-storied private residence in Van Ness Avenue; and, as if this were not enough architectural grace for the eye to dwell on, glimmering away to the right was the needle-like spire of Moss Bates's devil-dodging establishment in Branman Street; whilst, just behind it, in saucy mocking impudence, peeped out the gilded roof of the Knee Brothers 'recently erected Cinematograph Palace.

The Sorcery Club Elliott O'Donnell 1918