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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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- keel over
- let up
- put up with
- rule out
- sneak up
- sniff out
- straighten out
- strike up
- tear away
- all hell breaks loose
- as all get-out
- back-to-back
- check is in the mail
- drop a dime
- fall off a truck
- flutter in the dovecote
- free-for-all
- frog in one's throat
- from the word go
- give somebody an earful
- go bananas
- go out of one's way
- half a mind
- hand in hand
- heebie-jeebies
- hit someone for six
- in the dark
- kiss of death
- light a fire under
- much of a muchness
- nugget of truth
- object lesson
- off the mark
- on a roll
- on the right track
- out of line
- outside the box
- pound the pavement
- quarter past
- ride roughshod over
- run hot and cold
- same old story
- save face
- scare the pants off of
- see red
- send up
- silly money
- sob story
- stand one's ground
- take a bullet
- take a gamble
- take the liberty
- test the waters
- that does it
- turn over a new leaf
- turn to stone
- under the gun
- walk a tightrope
- whomp up
- world
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