raise hell

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raise hell (third-person singular simple present raises hell, present participle raising hell, simple past and past participle raised hell)

  1. (idiomatic) To cause a considerable disturbance.
    • 2013, Jason Isbell, Super 8:
      Don't want to sleep yet, buddy it's a good bet I'll raise more hell than you.
    • 2022, Marisol Cortez, “Ambivalent Anality: Revisiting the Queer Ecology of "the Jackass Moment"”, in Media+Environment:
      A segment where several cast members in panda suits raise skateboarding hell in the streets of Tokyo.
  2. To complain vociferously (about a certain matter).
    • 2022 February 9, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Mounting opposition to IRP”, in RAIL, number 950, page 3:
      Local authorities, media and all other regional stakeholders need to wake up, step up, and (frankly) raise hell... before it's too late.

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