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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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- blessing in disguise
- bread and butter
- by hand
- cake crumbs
- call it quits
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- cut and dried
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- dry run
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- give birth
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- green light
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- heart to heart
- in line
- in the dark
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- let her rip
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