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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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- bet dollars to donuts
- chew the fat
- cooking with gas
- cream of the crop
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- dry run
- eat one's hat
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- fresh legs
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- give a ring
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- low-hanging fruit
- lower the boom
- make a decision
- muckety muck
- no holds barred
- object lesson
- off the mark
- on one's toes
- point the finger at
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