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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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- zero in
- zip up
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- at one's beck and call
- be-all and end-all
- bolt bucket
- carry a torch for
- cut and dried
- dead duck
- easy as pie
- get into trouble
- go bananas
- go up in smoke
- go without saying
- green light
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- in its infancy
- in order
- in the dark
- keep your hair on
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- light a fire under
- make a decision
- mind one's own business
- no frills
- not half bad
- object lesson
- oh dark thirty
- old stick
- on hold
- on the right track
- on thin ice
- one another
- out of the blue
- piss up a rope
- play old harry
- quarter past
- red letter day
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