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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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- measure up
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- throw a fit
- touch off
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- wade in
- all hell breaks loose
- bad egg
- black babies
- burst someone's bubble
- by heart
- get the ball rolling
- go up in smoke
- gold mine
- green light
- half-baked
- have a word with
- hot potato
- it takes two to tango
- keep an eye peeled
- lie through one's teeth
- light a fire under
- lion's share
- look like
- nuts and bolts
- object lesson
- of late
- oh dark thirty
- old school
- one another
- over and over
- pass on
- piss up a rope
- point the finger at
- price is right
- red face test
- sack out
- see someone through
- shore up
- shotgun approach
- sign in
- sob story
- stand a chance
- stars in one's eyes
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- sure enough
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- take the liberty
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- that does it
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