scream bloody murder

Idioms  

1. Angrily protest as loudly as possible, as in When Jimmy took her teddy bear, Lauren screamed bloody murder, or Residents are screaming bloody murder about the increase in property taxes. The scream here may be either literal (as in the first example) or figurative, which is also true of invoking murder as though one were in danger of being killed. Versions of this term, such as cry murder, date from the 1400s.

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Example Sentences

"I thought this can't be right. It's not that I thought the trades were invalid or criminal in some way. It's just any country that has a billion Euros syphoned off it will scream bloody murder."

From BBC

But “if you weigh in, someone is going to scream bloody murder that you wrote this a certain way to favor your perspective.”

From Los Angeles Times

“They knew if this happens, we were going to scream bloody murder,” Whatley said last year.

From Seattle Times

“It doesn’t mean I’m going to scream bloody murder, but I think it can lead us to a much more balanced system.”

From Los Angeles Times

When the moves would backfire, people would scream bloody murder.

From Los Angeles Times

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