raise cane

verb — 2 senses

raise cane

verb
1

Eggcorn of raise Cain.

  • “I wasn’t there, but my mother told me that he raised so much cane that they had to call security.”2020, Tayari Jones, Silver Sparrow, Oneworld Publications, page 202:
2

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see raise, cane: for example, grow sugarcane.

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