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To complain strongly, usually as a group.
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Action groups are crying out against plans to build on the woodland area.
Submitted on August 29, 2012
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- play up
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- run down
- stand by
- all walks of life
- arse about face
- at last
- at will
- beauty sleep
- catch flies
- dark horse
- deep water
- dry run
- dyed-in-the-wool
- eat one's hat
- elbow room
- family jewels
- fat of the land
- forty winks
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- give somebody pause
- go red
- hand in hand
- haul his ashes
- have a cow
- have a heart
- have a look-see
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- in heaven's name
- in order
- in the nick of time
- jolly someone along
- lemon law
- lion
- low-hanging fruit
- no joy
- not be caught dead
- nugget of truth
- on a full stomach
- on the right track
- pay for it
- point the finger at
- quarter past
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- run into the ground
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