cut up rough
English
Verb
cut up rough (third-person singular simple present cuts up rough, present participle cutting up rough, simple past and past participle cut up rough)
- (colloquial) To become angry; to make a fuss.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 385:
- As anticipated, however, the Parlement cut up rough over a new stamp duty on public and printed documents […]
- 2011, Larry Elliott, The Guardian, 21 Jun 2011:
- Third, while there is no immediate risk of Greece being kicked out of the club, such a threat could materialise if German taxpayers were to cut up rough and exert real political pressure on Angela Merkel's government.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 385:
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