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单词 to set up a squawk
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to set (or put) up a squawk
b. figurative. A complaint, a protest, esp. in to set (or put) up a squawk. slang (originally and chiefly U.S.).
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the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > discontent or dissatisfaction > state of complaining > [noun] > a complaint
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1909 C. B. Chrysler White Slavery ix. 70 ‘Snatchin' simps’ is good enough for Little Willie, there is no ‘fall’, no squawk, all you have to do is to stall.
1914 L. E. Jackson & C. R. Hellyer Vocab. Criminal Slang 79 Squawk,..a protest; a vociferous demonstration, as an indignant repudiation of an injustice... ‘If you don't put up a squawk they'll trim you.’
1948 M. Laski Tory Heaven ix. 126 They was just told to shut down and shut down they did..there wasn't a squawk out of none of them.
1973 ‘B. Mather’ Snowline ii. 25 Our starry-eyed bleeding-hearts and permissives at home set up a squawk.
1976 ‘R. B. Dominic’ Murder out of Comm. xvi. 147 How in God's name can we set up a squawk? We don't know what's going on.
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