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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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- read out
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- take off
- all duck or no dinner
- as well
- back to square one
- back-to-back
- baggage
- be-all and end-all
- bent on
- chow down
- do-or-die
- from time to time
- get busy
- get it on
- go red
- grunt work
- hand in hand
- hang out one's shingle
- have truck with
- hold somebody's hand
- horse's ass
- in a nutshell
- in touch
- it takes two to tango
- jump the gun
- keep a close watch on
- keep an eye out
- keep one on one's toes
- let her rip
- magic bullet
- move heaven and earth
- nail biter
- nine lives
- on one's toes
- outside the box
- own up
- pound the pavement
- pull one's head in
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- ride shotgun
- rock the boat
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- slip through the cracks
- small fry
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- sure enough
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- thin-skinned
- turn to stone
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