make a stir

make a stir
See: MAKE A SCENE.

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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  • make a stir — See: MAKE A SCENE …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • make\ a\ stir — See: make a scene …   Словарь американских идиом

  • stir — I n. disturbance 1) to cause, create, make a stir 2) a big stir 3) a stir about, over II v. 1) (D; tr.) to stir into (to stir one ingredient into another) 2) (D; tr.) to stir to (the news stirred them to greater efforts) 3) (H; usu. refl.) they… …   Combinatory dictionary

  • make — v 1. fabricate, manufacture, produce, mint; construct, build, assemble, set up; erect, elevate, raise, rear, put up; mold, form, fashion, model, shape, frame; create, invent, originate, devise, contrive, compose, write, put together; cast, block …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

  • stir — [n] commotion, excitement activity, ado, agitation, backwash*, bustle, din, disorder, disquiet, disturbance, ferment, flap*, flurry, furor, fuss, movement, pandemonium, pother, racket, row, scene, to do*, tumult, turmoil, uproar, whirl,… …   New thesaurus

  • stir up a hornet's nest — {v. phr.} To make many people angry; do something that many people don t like. * /The principal stirred up a hornet s nest by changing the rules at school./ …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • stir up a hornet's nest — {v. phr.} To make many people angry; do something that many people don t like. * /The principal stirred up a hornet s nest by changing the rules at school./ …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • stir yourself — phrase to make yourself move or do something He knew he should really stir himself and get to work. Thesaurus: to go somewhere, or to move in a particular directionsynonym Main entry: stir …   Useful english dictionary

  • Make Mine a Million — Directed by Lance Comfort Written by Arthur Askey Peter Blackmore Starring Arthur Askey Bernard Cribbins Sid James …   Wikipedia

  • stir somebody up — ˌstir sbˈup derived to encourage sb to do sth; to make sb feel they must do sth Main entry: ↑stirderived …   Useful english dictionary

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