| 单词 | to raise a racket |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto raise a racket c. A noisy expression of opinion or feeling; a loud protest, a rumpus, a fuss. Also to raise a racket. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [noun] > briskness or activeness > bustle or fuss to-doc1330 adoc1380 great (also much) cry and little woolc1460 feery-fary1535 fray1568 stirc1595 do1598 coil1599 hurl1603 ruffle1609 clutterment1611 buzz1628 bustle1637 paddle1642 racket1644 clutter1652 tracas1656 tracasserie1656 circumference1667 flutter1667 hurly-burly1678 fuss1701 fissle1719 fraise1725 hurry-scurry1753 fix-fax1768 fal-lal1775 widdle1789 touse1792 fuffle1801 going-on1817 hurry and scurry1823 sputter1823 tew1825 Bob's-a-dying1829 fidge1832 tamasha1842 mulling1845 mussing1846 fettling1847 fooster1847 trade1854 scrimmage1855 carry-on1861 fuss-and-feathers1866 on-carry1870 make-a-do1880 miration1883 razzle-dazzle1885 song and dance1885 to get a rustle on1891 tea-party1903 stirabout1905 whoop-de-do1910 chichi1928 production1941 go-go1966 1644 D. Featley Sacra Nemesis iii. 4 Thou makest a hideous noyse and great racket about a Letter written to his grace, but intercepted. 1649 N. Culpeper Physicall Directory 54 Here the Colledge make another racket about the several sorts of Comfrys; which I passe by with silence, having spoke to them before. 1651 N. Culpeper Directory for Midwives ix. 203 What a Racket do Authors make about this! What wharting and contradicting, not of others, but of themselves! 1755 J. Shebbeare Lydia (1769) II. 270 She was astonished..at the racket which was made about a son of such a creature. 1760 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy II. ii. 17 What a pudder and racket in Councils..and in the Schools of the learned. 1793 C. Smith Old Manor House I. v. 114 Mr. Patterson would have made such a racket about it, that my aunt..let the story drop. 1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd II. xxii. 282 My eyes and limbs, there'll be a racket if you go back just now. 1882 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Daily Gaz. 6 Apr. 5/2 She was not going to raise a racket about such a small matter. 1910 E. M. Forster Howards End xliv. 339 Think of the racket and torture this time last year. But now I couldn't stop unhappy if I tried. 1926 J. Devanny Butcher Shop xxiii. 278 Wild impatience seized her at the absurdity, to her, of all his soul racket over a perfectly natural thing. 1957 W. Dykeman & J. Stokely Neither Black nor White iv. 65 Up at their school here they had a big row a year or so ago: one of the teachers put a hex on the principal's wife. They found out about it, had to fire her from her job there was such a racket about it. 1994 R. N. Lebow & J. G. Stein We all lost Cold War i. vi. 126 How come you raise such a racket about missiles in Cuba? < as lemmas |
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