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make a stink
verb
To complain; to demand attention or remedy for a problem.
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Three, make a stink.
We wanted to make a stink.
"We're really going to make a stink," he said.
I'm not into the rah-rah and make a stink about everything.
I'm going to make a stink because the filet was cooked more than I wanted?
Troy (David Tully) resists because the old man would make a stink if he found out.
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Michael Nazir-Ali, Bishop of Rochester, made a stink about it.
The community made "a stink, no pun intended," Mr. Addabbo said.
"Back then, the older guys stood their ground and made a stink of it.
So birthers and wing nuts get lots of ink, Tea-Party-ers Trillin thinks are making a stink.
He and Knight did not get along, and Sloan apparently made a stink about Knight needing to leave the premises.
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