cut up rough

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cut up rough (third-person singular simple present cuts up rough, present participle cutting up rough, simple past and past participle cut up rough)

  1. (colloquial, idiomatic) To become angry; to make a fuss.
    • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 385:
      As anticipated, however, the Parlement cut up rough over a new stamp duty on public and printed documents []
    • 2011 June 21, Larry Elliott, The Guardian:
      Third, while there is no immediate risk of Greece being kicked out of the club, such a threat could materialise if German taxpayers were to cut up rough and exert real political pressure on Angela Merkel's government.

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