kick up a fuss

Idioms  

1. Also,. Create a disturbance; start a fight. For example, The soup was cold, and Aunt Mary began to kick up a fuss, calling for the manager, or There's no need to kick up a row; the boys will leave quietly, or If they fire him, Carl is ready to kick up a storm. These expressions all employ kick up in the sense of “raise dust or dirt,” a usage dating from the mid-1700s.

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kick up a fuss

"I'd just gone freelance and was just coming to the attention of the beer world and commissioning editors, and it felt like a terrifying thing to kick up a fuss."

From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2018

Some have already begun to kick up a fuss.

From New York Times ● Apr. 6, 2017

A WTO member might kick up a fuss if, say, one of its car companies with production facilities in both Britain and the EU suddenly found it more expensive to assemble a model.

From Economist ● Jan. 4, 2017

If they kick up a fuss, you’re well within your rights to have new locks made, but I don’t think your in-laws have demonstrated that they’re likely to be unreasonable about this.

From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2016

Won’t he kick up a fuss if he knows you’ve got Joe?

From Baseball Joe on the School Nine or, Pitching for the Blue Banner by Lester Chadwick

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