Also to make a work. To create havoc or confusion; (hence) to make a fuss or to-do, to cause disturbance or trouble. Cf. sense 24. Now rare (Scottish…
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| 释义 | the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > commotion, disturbance, or disorder > be in commotion or disorder [verb (intransitive)] > cause commotion or disorder (19) to make work?1473 Also to make a work. To create havoc or confusion; (hence) to make a fuss or to-do, to cause disturbance or trouble. Cf. sense 24. Now rare (Scottish… perturb1543 intransitive. To disturb or trouble; to agitate. hurly-burly1598 intransitive. To make a hurly-burly or uproar. to throw (also fling) the house out of (also at) the window (also windows)1602 to throw (also fling) the house out of (also †at) the window (also windows) and variants: to put everything into a state of disorder or confusion… tumultuate1611 intransitive. To stir up a tumult; to make a disturbance or commotion; to become or be tumultuous, turbulent, agitated, or restless. to beat up the quarters of1670 to beat up the quarters of: to arouse, disturb; colloquial to visit unceremoniously. hurricane1682 (a) intransitive to make a ‘hurricane’ or commotion; (b) transitive, to blow upon as a hurricane; also, to spend in a ‘hurricane’ (sense 2b). larum1729 intransitive. To cause a stir, raise a commotion. Obsolete. rare. to kick up, make, raise a stour1787 Phrases. (Scottish) like stour: very swiftly or vigorously. to blow, cast, throw stour in one's eyes: figurative (cf. dust, n.1 4). to kick up, make… stour1811 (See quot. 1811.) to strike a bustle1823 transitive (= strike into) in certain phrases. to strike an attitude: see to strike an attitude at attitude, n. 2a.†to strike a bustle: to make… to cut shindies1829 A row, commotion, ‘shine’. to cut shindies (U.S.), to kick up a shindy. to kick up a shindy1829 A row, commotion, ‘shine’. to cut shindies (U.S.), to kick up a shindy. hurricanize1833 (intransitive) = hurricane v. (a). rumpus1839 intransitive. To make a disturbance; to behave in a wild or unrestrained way. to raise (Old) Ned1840 transitive. In various figurative phrases, as to raise the Devil, to raise the mischief, to raise (Old) Ned (U.S. slang, now rare), etc.: to create… to raise hell1845 to raise hell: to cause great trouble; to create chaos. Cf. raise, v.1 22b. fustle1891 to make a fuss. to rock the boat1903 figurative. to rock the boat: to disturb the equilibrium of a situation; to stir up trouble. Cf. to make waves at wave, n. 3d. |
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