up in arms
Example Sentences
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The rapper’s overhaul of the dwelling saw it reduced to little more than a concrete shell, decimating almost all of Ando’s original design — and leaving design lovers up in arms over its destruction.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 3, 2026
Farmers across Europe remain unconvinced and are up in arms, including in Spain where they staged a protest against the deal in Madrid earlier this month.
From Barron's • Feb. 27, 2026
Fans are "equally up in arms and devastated at what happened", he told BBC Radio 5 Live.
From BBC • Dec. 5, 2025
Members of Parliament are up in arms because men they believe spied on them won’t face trial.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025
Northern abolitionists like Ralph Waldo Emerson made Brown a martyr, and Southern loyalists got up in arms, quite literally, at the idea that this might be the start of a trend.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
