Kick Up a Fuss
What it means
Complain loudly enough that somebody has to deal with you.
Where it comes from
Fuss turns up in the 1700s with no clear ancestor. Etymologists mostly guess it was coined to sound like what it describes, which is a rare open admission of defeat from them.
The puzzle it came from
Kick Up a Fuss was the answer to the Phrasicle of December 7, 2025. The clue read ____ ____ a ____, and the words came out of a grid where every neighbouring pair makes a two-word phrase.
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danger
zone
out
front
gate
lucid
dream
big
fuss
around
record
high
kick
start
over
speak
up
grade
level
ground
Phrasicle: Kick Up a Fuss