kick up a row

"In the army in peace-time you’ve nothing to trouble about,” he goes on, "your food’s found every day, or else you kick up a row; you’ve a bed, every week clean underwear like a perfect gent, you do your non-com.’s duty, you have a good suit of clothes; in the evening you’re a free man and go off to the pub.”

“I’ve always valued my independence,” she says, kissing him and ordering him to “kick up a row” as the security forces close in.

It is not in the interest of any countries involved in the disputes to kick up a row or try to make negotiations difficult.

Asked him what the deuce he was lying there for, since he had wind enough to kick up a row.

Take it easy, take it easy, Dickon, my chick," said the old dame of whom we have already spoken, addressing one of the sturdy young vagabonds by whom she was surrounded: "never let's kick up a row among ourselves, do you see.