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Loud clamour
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hue and cry
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hue \Hue\, n. [OE. hue, huer, to hoot, shout, prob. fr. OF. hu an exclamation.] A shouting or vociferation. Hue and cry (Law), a loud outcry with which felons were anciently pursued, and which all who heard it were obliged to take up, joining in the pursuit ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. loud and persistent outcry from many people; "he ignored the clamor of the crowd" [syn: clamor , clamoring , clamour , clamouring ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Hue and Cry is a pop duo formed in 1983 in Coatbridge , Scotland , by brothers Pat Kane (vocals) and Greg Kane (music/production). The duo are best known for 1987 single " Labour of Love ".
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ The bill has raised a hue and cry from the gay community. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ He had the right to arrest all poachers found within his bailiwick, and to raise the hue and cry upon them. ▪ Limping across the courtyard ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context historical English) The public pursuit of a criminal, accompanied by shouts to warn others to give chase. 2 (context by extension English) A loud and persistent public clamour, especially one associated with protest or the making of some demand. ...
Usage examples of hue and cry.
In spite of the uphill slope and the substantial weight he was carrying, the monk easily outstripped the thirty-six Shaolin monks who were in hue and cry behind him, and before long he had rounded a bend in the mountain and was out of sight.
Then a hue and cry would go up, ravens would fly, and as often as not the Night's Watch would hunt them down and hang them before they could get back with their plunder and stolen women.
My frantic running ceased before I had covered a block, for at my left I began to hear something like the hue and cry of organised pursuit.
But the man made no such overt act as Tropile's terrible theft of bread, and Citizen Germyn postponed the raising of the hue and cry.
In a moment he was up and off like the wind, the gentleman following after and raising the hue and cry lustily as he went.
Oh, there was a fine hue and cry after you and Starnberg at first.
You wouldn't leave top-secret documents in the copying machine and cause a hue and cry all round the building the way you did three times last year.
By the time she reached the shadow of the royal sept on the far side of the yard, Arya was cold with sweat, but no one had raised the hue and cry.