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A public clamor, as of protest or demand. For example, The reformers raised a hue and cry about political corruption. This redundant expression (hue and cry both mean "an outcry"), dating from the 1200s, originally meant "an outcry calling for the pursuit of a criminal." By the mid-1500s it was Also being used more broadly, as in the example.
American Heritage Idioms
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Phrase(s): a hue and cry
Fig. a loud public protest or opposition. (See also raise a hue and cry.) • There was a hue and cry when the city government tried to build houses on the playing field. • The decision to close the local school started a real hue and cry.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs