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hue and cry

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a hue and cry
when there is a hue and cry about something, a lot of people complain noisily about it. Local people raised a terrible hue and cry about the plan to close the village school.
See also: cry


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The hue and cry going off to the Hulks, and people coming thence to examine the iron, Joe's opinion was corroborated.
There will be a hue and cry after you, when you are missed.
He liked Jerry, was glad to be with him and to run with him; but it was Jerry who was ever in the lead, who ever raised the hue and cry of hunting pursuit, who barked indignation and eager yearning at a tree'd squirrel in refuge forty feet above the ground.
 
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