up in arms

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The rapper’s overhaul of the dwelling saw it reduced to little more than a concrete shell, decimating almost all of Ando’s original design — and leaving design lovers up in arms over its destruction.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 3, 2026

The teams were up in arms and complained.

From BBC • Feb. 16, 2026

U.S. voters aren’t the only ones up in arms about affordability.

From Barron's • Jan. 8, 2026

But Meloni’s government is up in arms about the threat to Italian pasta exports.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 10, 2025

Simultaneous and contradictory information declared him victorious in Villanueva, defeated in Guacamayal, devoured by Motilón Indians, dead in a village in the swamp, and up in arms again in Urumita.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez