hoo-hah

Example Sentences

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They looked at an earlier study that fed into the Desi results from March which began the whole hoo-hah.

From BBC • Dec. 27, 2025

BW: Yeah, I understand because I’ve seen other … I saw the hoo-hah a couple of years ago with Froome with the Tour of Romandie inhaler and the last-minute TUE, racing on it.

From The Guardian • Sep. 30, 2016

Amid the hoo-hah, one word was curiously in abeyance.

From Economist • Jul. 28, 2016

As Robert Redford, who founded the Sundance Institute in 1981, said in an interview, “You have to forget all the advance hoo-hah and hoopla and just watch the films.”

From New York Times • Jan. 16, 2013

And the hens were a bother, darting from the periphery into the thick of things, setting up a great hysterical hoo-hah.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly