kick up a fuss
Example Sentences
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There has been growing debate over how to manage what China calls "bear children" - spoilt young kids who kick up a fuss in public spaces such as by screaming or damaging public property.
From BBC • Aug. 29, 2024
Anyone expecting Leonard to kick up a fuss and spark a war in the Raptors’ locker-room has been left waiting.
From The Guardian • Jan. 11, 2019
Its shareholders will have no reason to kick up a fuss if the takeover goes well.
From Economist • Jan. 12, 2017
If they kick up a fuss, you’re well within your rights to have new locks made, but I don’t think your in-laws have demonstrated that they’re likely to be unreasonable about this.
From Slate • Apr. 20, 2016
I knowed, a-course, that I could go kick up a fuss when Simpson stopped by his office on his trip back from Goldstone.
From Alec Lloyd, Cowpuncher by Gates, Eleanor
