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cut up rough en · VERB
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(colloquial, idiomatic) To become angry; to make a fuss.
As anticipated, however, the Parlement cut up rough over a new stamp duty on public and printed documents […]
2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 385: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.
2011 June 21, Larry Elliott, The Guardian:
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cut up nasty