raise a stink
idiom
: to complain or object very angrily
Some people are raising a stink about the proposed tax.
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Bassin was worried that McDavid or someone close to him was going to raise a stink.
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Daniel Nugent-Bowman, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
Fort Worth officials are pledging tweaks to the city’s trash pick-up system as residents and their representatives raise a stink about shoddy collection.
—Jaime Moore-Carrillo, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 May 2024
Business groups plan to raise a stink about the debt that California’s unemployment insurance fund owes the federal government, which ballooned during the pandemic as more workers lost their jobs and collected benefits.
—Grace Gedye, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Jan. 2022
Led by Gabe Kapler and Mike Yastrzemski, the Giants would be the team most likely to raise a stink about American voters getting hosed in Texas.
—Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 2 Oct. 2020
Even the Federal Communications Commission declined to raise a fuss.
—BostonGlobe.com, 12 Apr. 2023
Surely Green, a big football fan, would weigh in on the quarterback controversy in his backyard, from the perspective of an athlete who had to fight and raise a fuss to get off the bench his rookie season.
—Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Nov. 2021
At the time, Griner’s Mercury teammates were following the lead of her advisers, who had decided to stay low-key and not raise a ruckus that might draw Putin’s ire.
—Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 8 July 2022
Paul Colson was ready to raise a ruckus — and risk arrest — if Canadian border officials denied him entry on his drive home to the Northwest Angle on Tuesday.
—Brooks Johnson, Star Tribune, 9 Apr. 2021
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Daniel Nugent-Bowman, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
Fort Worth officials are pledging tweaks to the city’s trash pick-up system as residents and their representatives raise a stink about shoddy collection.
—Jaime Moore-Carrillo, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 May 2024
Business groups plan to raise a stink about the debt that California’s unemployment insurance fund owes the federal government, which ballooned during the pandemic as more workers lost their jobs and collected benefits.
—Grace Gedye, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Jan. 2022
Led by Gabe Kapler and Mike Yastrzemski, the Giants would be the team most likely to raise a stink about American voters getting hosed in Texas.
—Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 2 Oct. 2020
Even the Federal Communications Commission declined to raise a fuss.
—BostonGlobe.com, 12 Apr. 2023
Surely Green, a big football fan, would weigh in on the quarterback controversy in his backyard, from the perspective of an athlete who had to fight and raise a fuss to get off the bench his rookie season.
—Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Nov. 2021
At the time, Griner’s Mercury teammates were following the lead of her advisers, who had decided to stay low-key and not raise a ruckus that might draw Putin’s ire.
—Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 8 July 2022
Paul Colson was ready to raise a ruckus — and risk arrest — if Canadian border officials denied him entry on his drive home to the Northwest Angle on Tuesday.
—Brooks Johnson, Star Tribune, 9 Apr. 2021
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