See hullabaloo on Wiktionary
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"text": "\"Nonsense, child,\" said my father, smiling. \"Did you ever see a stone thrown into the pond? there's a great splash, and a few circles on the water, and that's about all, isn't it? Well, when I die there'll be a great splash of tears and hullaballooing, and a few circles of tender recollections, and then the surface will smooth itself over, and it'll be all right again.\"",
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"text": "Ho, hullaballoing clan / Agape, with woe / In your beaks, on the gabbing capes!",
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"ref": "2012 October 30, Jessica Redmond, “It was all yellow: Some dude defaces a Rothko in the name of ‘yellowism’”, in Columbia Spectator:",
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"ref": "2013 January 8, Rory Carroll, “CES 2013: TV companies hope size and sharpness are the future”, in The Guardian:",
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"lang": "German",
"sense": "to make a commotion or uproar",
"word": "Wellen schlagen"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to make a commotion or uproar",
"word": "wywoływać wielkie poruszenie"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to make a commotion or uproar",
"word": "poner el grito en el cielo"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to make a commotion or uproar",
"word": "hacer muchos aspavientos"
}
],
"word": "hullabaloo"
}
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