big stink
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She says she doesn’t want to make a big stink about defending him because she thinks that could inflame some families more.
From Slate ● Apr. 24, 2023
“We were just having a conversion because obviously there was a big stink that was made out of it last year, right?”
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 14, 2022
On my way to check out the big stink in Carson, I felt like I was driving into a storm of environmental hazards.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2021
He said a few fans “make a big stink out there — a few knuckleheads who wreck it.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 22, 2021
My mother can make a very big stink about that kind of stuff.
From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger
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