figurative (from 2c.) Confusion, disturbance, commotion, turmoil (as of a conflict in which much dust is raised); formerly chiefly in to raise a dust…
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| 释义 | society > society and the community > dissent > lack of peacefulness > cause a disturbance [verb (intransitive)] (6) to raise a dust1649 figurative (from 2c.) Confusion, disturbance, commotion, turmoil (as of a conflict in which much dust is raised); formerly chiefly in to raise a dust… to stir up a hornets' nest1740 transferred and figurative. An enemy that attacks persistently and with virulence; esp. in hornets' nest, nest of hornets. to bring a hornets' nest a… row1797 intransitive. To make a row, commotion, or disturbance; (now esp.) to have a row; to quarrel noisily or heatedly. to kick up a shindy1829 A row, commotion, ‘shine’. to cut shindies (U.S.), to kick up a shindy. to raise Cain1840 to raise Cain: see raise, v.1 22b colloquial (originally U.S.). to raise the mischief1840 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… |
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