kick up a stew

短语

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To cause trouble; cause a dust-up; cause a hubbub.

    But if you come to the United States to jest kick up a stew, / 'Tween Abner Jones an' his man Mike, an' neighbor Donahue, ' […]

    " […] would rush in and kick up a stew and get all the worst of it. That's not my style."

    Bathing girls of the outdoor kind have cruised before the public eye for years, without causing more than a passing ripple, so why should the bathing girl kick up a stew the minute she does her bath- ing within the privacy of her own home , e'en though she be portrayed on a billboard ? Of course , we will admit the advertiser might have soothed the ruffled feelings of his public […]

  2. 2.

    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see kick, stew.

    The Verna swerved close, her stern kicking up a stew as she started to back up.

词源

From dialectal stew (“(cloud of) dust”).

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