kick up a row
Example Sentences
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"I will continue to agitate and kick up a row until we get rid of these evils."
From Time Magazine Archive
The Mexican delegate, oldtime Labor Boss Luis Morones, had tried to kick up a row by accusing the A.F.L. of keeping Argentines away from Lima.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Why, what’s got you, Lub?” demanded X-Ray, indignantly; “I always thought you’d be the last one to kick up a row, when a thing like this was being talked over.”
From Phil Bradley's Snow-shoe Trail The Mountain Boys in the Canada Wilds by Boone, Silas K.
"I—I suppose you've come to kick up a row, to bully me?" he said, sullenly.
From The Woman's Way by Garvice, Charles
The mate's watch went first, among them my stout friend Joe, whom I tearfully begged not to get drunk and kick up a row, for my sake.
From The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life by Bullen, Frank T.
