kick up a row
Example Sentences
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The Mexican delegate, oldtime Labor Boss Luis Morones, had tried to kick up a row by accusing the A.F.L. of keeping Argentines away from Lima.
From Time Magazine Archive
"I will continue to agitate and kick up a row until we get rid of these evils."
From Time Magazine Archive
Do you suppose I want you to kick up a row in Boston?
From Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself by Jacobs, Harriet Ann
He’ll kick up a row, and say there’s ten times as much damage done to it as there really is, and it’s next to nothing.
From Cormorant Crag A Tale of the Smuggling Days by Rainey, W. (William)
If I had wanted to kick up a row, to bully you—in other words, to round on you and show you up, I should have come before, the moment I knew how you had—sold me.
From The Woman's Way by Garvice, Charles
