a hue and cry
a hue and cry
Fig. a loud public protest or opposition. (See also raise a hue and cry (about sth).)
There was a hue and cry when the city government tried to build houses on the playing field.
The decision to close the local school started a real hue and cry.
热门单词
- abstain
- a feather in one's cap
- a fine state of affairs
- afraid of one's own shadow
- a gnashing of teeth
- a hand with sth
- air one's pores
- aisle
- a knee-jerk reaction
- a law unto oneself
- alike as (two) peas in a pod
- alligator
- all over hell and gone
- all right with so
- all the same
- all wool and no shoddy
- a milestone in so's life
- a mine of information
- amuck
- an act of God
- an act of war