raise a rumpus
Example Sentences
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One hundred thousand such fire-eaters as Susan B. Anthony or Elizabeth Cady Stanton in the land, could raise a rumpus which would cause the late unpleasantness to pale into insignificance.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
They sort of partitioned the cage off by itself, and kept close watch on Harry, so he wouldn’t raise a rumpus.
From The Boys of the Wireless by Webster, Frank V.
Now he's going to raise a rumpus for sure!
From Interference and Other Football Stories by Sherman, Harold Morrow
He’d be liable to raise a rumpus, he would.”
From The Peace of Roaring River by Koerner, W. H. D. (William Henry Dethlef)
She just got to the place where it's her time to spill brine, and raise a rumpus about something, and aisy brathin' would start her.
From At the Foot of the Rainbow by Stratton-Porter, Gene
