Related Clues:

• Take a knife to the fly-by-nights up there
• They turn out at night to use the knife
• Get your knife into the fly-by-nights on the way back
• With aid of a knife you can make them go up at night
• Get your knife into them at night up there
• Run it through me so that I lose colour
• One might make mischief with beer and go through with it
• Drink may be mischievous if you let it get through you
• If you get your knife into them they come out backwards at night
• They're fly enough to come back to drive the point home
• They come back at night with a knife
• Run through to the mischiefmaker with a drink
• I have not enough colour for such mischievous drink, it seems
• I am a shade less mischievous with a drink
• The fly-by-nights come back in a piercing way