raise hell
verb1
Idiomatic To cause a considerable disturbance.
- Near-synonyms: (disturb loudly) raise the dead, wake the dead
- Don't want to sleep yet, buddy it's a good bet I'll raise more hell than you.2013, Jason Isbell, Super 8:
1 more example
- A segment where several cast members in panda suits raise skateboarding hell in the streets of Tokyo.2022, Marisol Cortez, “Ambivalent Anality: Revisiting the Queer Ecology of "the Jackass Moment"”, in Media+Environment:
2
To complain vociferously (about a certain matter).
- Local authorities, media and all other regional stakeholders need to wake up, step up, and (frankly) raise hell... before it's too late.2022 February 9, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Mounting opposition to IRP”, in RAIL, number 950, page 3:
- Related terms
- hellraiser