单词 | make a stink |
释义 | make a stinkSEE SYNONYMS FOR make a stink ON THESAURUS.COM Also, raise a stink. Create a great fuss; complain, criticize, or otherwise make trouble about something. For example, They promised to fix the printer today; you needn't make a stink about it, or The parents were raising a stink about the principal's new rules. This idiom transfers an offensive odor to a public fuss. [Mid-1800s] Also see make a scene. Words nearby make a stinkmake as if, make a silk purse, make a stab at, make a stand, make a statement, make a stink, make a virtue of necessity, make away, make away with, Makeba, make bail The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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