"play Old Harry" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "ref": "1901, Miles Franklin, “’Possum Gully Left Behind. Hurrah! Hurrah!”, in My Brilliant Career, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, page 60:",
          "text": "By his accent and innocent style I detected he was not a colonial, so I got him to relate his history. He was an Englishman by birth, but had been to America, Spain, New Zealand, Tasmania, &c.; by his own make out had ever been a man of note, and had played Old Harry everywhere.",
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          "ref": "1916, John Buchan, Greenmantle:",
          "text": "Blenkiron and I have been moving in the best circles as skilled American engineers who are going to play Old Harry with the British on the Tigris.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1962, J. L. Austin, How to do things with words:",
          "text": "I distinguish five more general classes: but I am far from equally happy about all of them. They are, however, quite enough to play Old Harry with two fetishes which I admit to an inclination to play Old Harry with, viz. (1) the true/false fetish, (2) the value/fact fetish.'",
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      "glosses": [
        "To play the devil; to make mischief."
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        "(idiomatic) To play the devil; to make mischief."
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      "form": "played Old Harry",
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          "ref": "1901, Miles Franklin, “’Possum Gully Left Behind. Hurrah! Hurrah!”, in My Brilliant Career, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, page 60:",
          "text": "By his accent and innocent style I detected he was not a colonial, so I got him to relate his history. He was an Englishman by birth, but had been to America, Spain, New Zealand, Tasmania, &c.; by his own make out had ever been a man of note, and had played Old Harry everywhere.",
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          "text": "Blenkiron and I have been moving in the best circles as skilled American engineers who are going to play Old Harry with the British on the Tigris.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1962, J. L. Austin, How to do things with words:",
          "text": "I distinguish five more general classes: but I am far from equally happy about all of them. They are, however, quite enough to play Old Harry with two fetishes which I admit to an inclination to play Old Harry with, viz. (1) the true/false fetish, (2) the value/fact fetish.'",
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        "To play the devil; to make mischief."
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        "(idiomatic) To play the devil; to make mischief."
      ],
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