raise a rumpus

Let's raise a rumpus an' scare 'em to death!

From On Guard Mark Mallory's Celebration by Upton Sinclair

My wife would raise a rumpus if I brought you along.

From The Rise of David Levinsky by Abraham Cahan

Now he's going to raise a rumpus for sure!

From Interference and Other Football Stories by Harold Morrow Sherman

She just got to the place where it's her time to spill brine, and raise a rumpus about something, and aisy brathin' would start her.

From At the Foot of the Rainbow by Gene Stratton-Porter

One hundred thousand such fire-eaters as Susan B. Anthony or Elizabeth Cady Stanton in the land, could raise a rumpus which would cause the late unpleasantness to pale into insignificance.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III by Elizabeth Cady Stanton