create a scene
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“And they’re going to start taking pictures, and I didn’t want to create a scene at all. Like, I just really wanted to get the ticket and then go on about my way.”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 10, 2024
Defense attorneys said Price’s brother was resisting arrest and helped create a scene of danger and chaos that Moreno was reacting to.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 24, 2022
Mr. Myrdal did not attend his mother’s funeral, saying, “I did not want to create a scene with my father.”
From Washington Post • Nov. 3, 2020
I didn’t want to create a scene, but I couldn’t help but think: This is beneath me, to sit here pretending I am OK with Generalissimo Wintour.
From The Guardian • May 23, 2020
We had agreed among ourselves that come what would, we would preserve our dignity and self-respect, and do anything rather than create a scene among such people.
From A Confederate Girl's Diary by Dawson, Sarah Morgan
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