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KICK UP A ROW

Specialty Definition: KICK UP A ROW

DomainDefinition

Literature

Kick Up a Row (To). To create a disturbance. "A pretty kick up" is a great disturbance. The phrase "To kick up the dust" explains the other phrases. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms within Context: KICK UP A ROW

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Discord

Get into hot water, fish in troubled waters, brawl; kick up a row, kick up a dust; turn the house out of window.

Violence

Explode, make a row, kick up a row; boil, boil over; fume, foam, come on like a lion, bluster, rage, roar, fly off the handle, go bananas, go ape, blow one's top, blow one's cool, flip one's lid, hit the ceiling, hit the roof; fly into a rage (anger).

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Translation: KICK UP A ROW

Language Translations for "KICK UP A ROW"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

bëj potere (bang, jangle, rough-house). (various references)

   

Czech

  

zpùsobit výtržnost. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

haastaa riitaa (pick a quarrel). (various references)

   

German

  

krawall machen (go on the rampage), krakeelen (kick up a racket, roister), radau machen (make trouble, to kick up a row). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

lármát csap (to racket, to wake snakes). (various references)

   

Italian

  

schiamazzare (brawl, cackle, gaggle, make a din). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ickkay upay aay owray

   

Russian 

  

поднять скандал. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

buniti se (rise above). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

escandalizar (affray, horrify, make a fuss, scandalize, shock). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

ställa till bråk (create, make the fur fly, raise cain, raise the dust), gorma (brawl, rant, rave, yawp). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kavga çıkarmak (make the fur fly, pick a quarrel, pick a quarrel with smb.), kıyameti koparmak (be on the rampage, go on the rampage, kick up a stink, make a great fuss, pop off, raise a stink, raise cain, raise hell, raise the roof, ramp and rage, row, storm), yeri göğü inletmek (raise the roof, roister), ortalığı birbirine katmak (make a mess, pop off, send things flying), hır çıkarmak, gürültü yapmak (bang about, be too noisy, kick up a shine, make noise, row). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: KICK UP A ROW

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-i-k-k-o-p-r-u-w"

-4 letters: kickup, picaro, workup.

-5 letters: auric, carpi, copra, coria, croak, croup, curia, curio, kapok, kauri, korai, kukri, okapi, prick, pucka, pukka, wacko, wrack, wrick.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Translations: Modern
2. Anagrams
3. Bibliography


  

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