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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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- touch off
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- can of worms
- daily grind
- down the drain
- fair game
- flesh out
- give birth
- good job
- grace period
- gray area
- ground rules
- hand in hand
- have a cow
- if needs be
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- keep one on one's toes
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- out of character
- out of house and home
- out of house and home
- out of order
- pardon my french
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- pull one's head in
- quake in one's boots
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