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big stink

Idioms  
  1. A major scandal or furor. For example, If they don't improve the women's facilities, Marjorie will make a big stink about it. [Early 1800s]


Example Sentences

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“You knowhow we sometimes get an egg good and rotten so it makes a big stink?”

From Literature

Who’d have thought collecting a few Wonders would create such a big stink around Sassafras Springs?

From Literature

Another big game, another big stink.

From Los Angeles Times

Instead the foundation raised a big stink, saying they hadn’t given permission to the admakers to use excerpts of the speech — which was in the public domain, so they had no say in the matter — and insisting that it misrepresented him.

From Salon

Year after year, at my physical, I make a big stink about the chart remaining consistent.

From Slate