acting up

An old foot wound was acting up, and he was unable to work much.

She once hit him over the head with a thermos in the back of a car because he was acting up so badly on a road trip.

Her children were milling around and acting up as children will, yet she kept her focus as she talked.

He even jailed and fined a spectator for acting up in court.

The world might be so much happier if people wouldnt insist on acting up to their principles.

Then, acting up to her own creed of seeking always the clear understanding, she returned to the point they had left untouched.

But she was ever feeling that she was not acting up to her theory, now that the time for such practice had come.

By acting up to the true spirit of this code he has reaped immense advantages from it.

To tell you the truth, the way Lee was acting up and all—he was very noisy, I didn't particularly want to do it.