From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishkick up a fuss/stink/rowkick up a fuss/stink/rowinformal to complain loudly about something Won’t he kick up a fuss when he discovers they’re missing? → kick
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kick up a fuss/stink/row• It's financial clout that counts or, failing that, kicking up a stink.• It's for your protection, so that you have the union behind you if Mellowes kicks up a stink.• Yet when pedestrianisation was first announced the city's shopkeepers, taxi drivers and disabled groups kicked up a fuss.• It will still contain plenty of business and mortgage borrowers to kick up a stink about base rates.• It might be partly because I didn't kick up a fuss when I lost the captaincy. 