亚洲网紅露点

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kick-up

or 办颈肠办路耻辫

[ kik-uhp ]

noun

  1. a violent disturbance or argument.


kick up

verb

  1. informal.
    to cause (trouble, a fuss, etc)
  2. kick up bobsy-die
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of kick-up1

First recorded in 1790鈥95; kick ( def ) + up ( def )
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Idioms and Phrases

Malfunction, cause trouble or pain, as in My grandmother's arthritis is kicking up again . [ Colloquial ; first half of 1900s] Also see act up ; also subsequent entries beginning with kick up .
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Example Sentences

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He describes his campaign as the "kick-up the backside" for Wales to make them an important part of national culture to bring supporters, young and old, together.

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鈥淚t鈥檒l kick-up this afternoon over southern Kansas and about all of Oklahoma, with rain, wind gusts of 65 mph, hail and tornadoes.鈥

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My knob-toed, orange-colored 鈥渒ick-up鈥 shoes were nothing but Florsheims, the ghetto鈥檚 Cadillac of shoes in those days.

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鈥淎ll you do is a little kick-up on advertising to keep the awareness there,鈥 he says.

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To combat dust kick-up, the cart boys apply a greasy coat of Armor All to the tires, interior, and even the steering wheel.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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