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Jekyll and Hyde

A person whose personality drastically changes between good and bad. A reference to the main character in the book Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. Ever since Kyle became a teenager, he's turned into a real Jekyll and Hyde, and it's impossible to anticipate his mood at any given time.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

Jekyll and Hyde

someone with both an evil and a good personality. (From the novel The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson.) Bill thinks Mary is so soft and gentle, but she can be very cruel—she is a real Jekyll and Hyde. Jane doesn't know that Fred is a Jekyll and Hyde. She sees him only when he is being kind and generous, but he can be very cruel.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

Jekyll and Hyde

A personality alternating between good and evil behavior, as in You never know whether Bob will be a Jekyll or a Hyde. This expression comes from Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886). Also see lead a double life.
See also: and, Hyde, Jekyll
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.

Jekyll and Hyde

a person alternately displaying opposing good and evil personalities.
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ( 1886 ) is a novel by Robert Louis Stevenson , in which the physician Jekyll, in order to indulge his evil instincts, uses a drug to create the persona of Hyde, which at first he can assume at will but which gradually gains control of him.
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Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary

a ˌJekyll and ˈHyde

a person with two separate personalities or ways of behaving, one good, pleasant, etc. and one evil, unpleasant, etc: He’s a real Jekyll and Hyde. At home he shouts at his wife and children all the time; at work he’s always charming and friendly.This comes from a story by Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, in which Dr Jekyll takes a drug which separates the good and bad sides of his personality into two characters. All the negative aspects go into the character of Mr Hyde.
See also: and, Hyde, Jekyll
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary

Jekyll and Hyde

An individual who has two completely different sides, one very good and the other evil. The term comes from Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886), in which one character can switch from the good Dr. Jekyll to the evil Mr. Hyde by taking a drug. Leslie Purnell Davies defined it in The Shadow Before (1971), “We are all a mixture of good and evil, Jekyll and Hyde if you like.”
See also: and, Hyde, Jekyll
The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer
See also:
  • a Jekyll and Hyde
  • Jekyll
  • Jekyll and Hyde
  • man is known by the company he keeps
  • a man is judged by the company he keeps
  • a man is known by the company he keeps
  • metamorphose into
  • a good looker
  • good looker
  • chip off the old block
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Henry Hyde, a first-term conservative Catholic congressman from Illinois, introduced an amendment to the 1976 Labor/Health and Human Services Appropriations Bill to ban the use of federal funds to pay for abortion.
* A 10-year lease for 1,050 s/f at 783 Hillside Avenue, New Hyde Park, NY for Giancarlo's Gourmet Butcher.
Hyde had not won a league fixture since April 9 before winning 2-0 at Welling, with strikes from Louis Almond and Connor Hughes giving them a much needed three points.
The tale of duplicity and greed sees Jon Utterson, a respectable lawyer investigate Hyde when Dr Henry Jekyll, Utterson's friend, leaves a will in his care, in it he leaves all his property to Hyde in the event of his death or his disappearance.
Mr Hyde, who said he is "surprised and shocked" that he is to be asked to leave his job, has been suspended from his PS130,000 a year post since last September.
Hyde Development plans to pump $100 million to $150 million to clean up and develop the site in a project that could ultimately create 4,000 jobs, said Paul Hyde, principal at the firm.
With only 10 minutes on the clock County opened the scoring through Jolley's exquisite lob over Hyde keeper David Carnell, the 24-year-old netting his third goal in four games.
Convinced the cure for his father''s mental illnesses lies in the separation of man''s evil nature from his good, Dr Jekyll unwittingly unleashes his own dark side, wreaking havoc in the streets of late 19th Century London as the savage, maniacal Edward Hyde.
Review of Your Unselfish Kindness: Robin Hyde's Autobiographical Writings, edited by Mary Edmond-Paul (Dunedin: Otago University Press, 2012).
PEARL Hyde were crowned the Coventry Primary Schools Seven-a-Side champions with a superb team performance that proved too good for their city rivals.
0n Saturday morning at the conference, Pamela Hyde, administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration (SAMHSA), spoke to attendees of the Healthcare Professional Interest Section Special Session and Luncheon.
You won't give the answer "drummer" to this old joke after seeing HYDE & BEAST.
Michael Hyde, All Along the Watchtower: Memoir of a Sixties Revolutionary, The Vulgar Press, Melbourne, 2010.
Stevenson's Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is probably the best known of Scottish fantasies, because more than any other it is a mythic analysis of the nature of modern man.