brouhaha
大吵大闹,大闹天宫,人声鼎沸,大吵大嚷
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- : excited public interest, discussion, or the like, as the clamor attending some sensational event; hullabaloo: The brouhaha followed disclosures of graft at City Hall.
- : an episode involving excitement, confusion, turmoil, etc., especially a broil over a minor or ridiculous cause: A brouhaha by the baseball players resulted in three black eyes.
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Last month, for example, there was a public brouhaha over the dismissal of a freelance editor, which worsened when the paper issued a statement on the matter.
Given the brouhaha after the 2016 election, we knew we had to thoughtfully approach how we delivered the forecast.
You know, like a mask but smaller and without all the political brouhaha.
Then came the book tour, and the brouhaha following that NPR interview.
According to the blog, she soon “backtracked” on her comments, deleting the Facebook thread, and calling the brouhaha “childish.”
As Eleanor Clift recently lamented, the brouhaha in Congress over food stamps is not just about budgets.
Abraham Foxman, the national director of Anti-Defamation League, reacting to the Bieber brouhaha, said as much.
Sino-Japanese frictions would be on the uptick about now even without the Diaoyu brouhaha.
It was then I realized the Chief was still sitting in his chair, where he had been when the brouhaha started.
From afar the rumors of revelry, the brouhaha of a mad population, saluted his deaf ears, the distant music of lutes and viols.