kick up a row
Example Sentences
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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
"I will continue to agitate and kick up a row until we get rid of these evils."
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
Only to-day I heard one of the red-coats say to his fellow, ‘When are they going to kick up a row?’
From The French Prisoners of Norman Cross A Tale by Brown, Arthur, Rev.
It’s the outside public afterwards who get up petitions and kick up a row in the press about a pretty woman.’
From The Queen Against Owen by Upward, Allen
