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see under raise Cain .

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Maybe the evening news as an institution has dwindled so much that no one cares enough to raise hell.

I went back to raise hell, but High-Pockets—well, one of them—was quite calm about it.

Then you rake leaves--then the taxpayers raise hell, and throw the rascals out to save the Constitution.

But—inasmuch as your mother has always belonged to the Granger party, I suppose—I suppose she'll just raise hell!

Then he'll go back West and raise hell for a year or so; finally his father will make him go into the paint business.

"I'd rather raise hell with a bunch of Germans," Sam Daniels declared feelingly.

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