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raise a stink

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My advice if you get into a situation like this is to raise a stink with your insurer.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 19, 2021

They’ll have to raise a stink wherever he appears in public.

From Slate • Aug. 29, 2018

History tells us that in cases like this, someone will raise a stink about “protecting the kids,” though the fuss will really be about protecting adults and their idealized notions of childhood.

From Time • Nov. 13, 2012

Now that will raise a stink, and it should.

From Washington Post • Nov. 24, 2010

Buxton pointed out that the Swiss, who were neutral in the war, would raise a stink at having their territory used this way—well, he said, they’d just have to get over it.

From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin

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