| 单词 | kick up a stink |
| 释义 | kick up a stinkkick up a stink 1 informal to complain loudly about something 闹事、吵闹 Won’t he kick up a fuss when he discovers they’re missing? 他发觉它们不见了的话会不会闹起来？ Examples from the Corpus kick up a fuss/stink/row• It's financial clout that counts or, failing that, kicking up a stink.• It's for your protection, so that you have the union behind you if Mellowes kicks up a stink.• Yet when pedestrianisation was first announced the city's shopkeepers, taxi drivers and disabled groups kicked up a fuss.• It will still contain plenty of business and mortgage borrowers to kick up a stink about base rates.• It might be partly because I didn't kick up a fuss when I lost the captaincy. → kick up a fuss/stink/row at kick1(10) 2 COMPLAINto complain very strongly 强烈抱怨；大吵大闹 Activists have raised a stink about the shipments of nuclear waste. 积极分子就运送的几批核废物大做文章。 Examples from the Corpus cause/kick up/make etc a stink• It's for your protection, so that you have the union behind you if Mellowes kicks up a stink.• It's financial clout that counts or, failing that, kicking up a stink.• It will still contain plenty of business and mortgage borrowers to kick up a stink about base rates. → cause/kick up/make etc a stink at stink2(1) |
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