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make a stink



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Idioms and Phrases

Also, raise a stink . Create a great fuss; complain, criticize, or otherwise make trouble about something. For example, They promised to fix the printer today; you needn't make a stink about it , or The parents were raising a stink about the principal's new rules . This idiom transfers an offensive odor to a public fuss. [Mid-1800s] Also see make a scene .
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Do I let it slide, because that鈥檚 what my sister herself is doing, or correct them and make a stink, every single time?

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Part of her didn鈥檛 want to 鈥渕ake a stink,鈥 because other issues, like homelessness, are more pressing.

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I suppose that I may be in a minority of reviewers to make a stink about this, but I really wish Razer had built in a 3.5mm jack for wired listening.

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鈥淏igger publications would like to make a stink that he鈥檚 going to the indies and not the big guys, which is frankly absurd,鈥 she said.

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It would not be worth it to make a stink.

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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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