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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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- deafening silence
- deep water
- do-or-die
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- in black and white
- in its infancy
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- one of those days
- one thousand
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- out of order
- out to lunch
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