"whip up a storm" meaning in English

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        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "whipping up a storm",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "whipped up a storm",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
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    },
    {
      "form": "whipped up a storm",
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      "expansion": "whip up a storm (third-person singular simple present whips up a storm, present participle whipping up a storm, simple past and past participle whipped up a storm)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2011, Francis Pike, Empires at War, page 111",
          "text": "However, moral judgement soon deserted America, as Senator Joseph McCarthy, a junior senator from Wisconsin, whipped up a storm of populist terror at the possibility that the USA was already undermined by communists.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2024 March 10, David Hytner, “Doku involved at both ends as Liverpool and Manchester City share spoils”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "It was the kind of storm that Liverpool have whipped up so often under Klopp and yet it would blow out, City stabilising and almost nicking it.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To cause an uproar or controversy."
      ],
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        [
          "cause",
          "cause"
        ],
        [
          "uproar",
          "uproar"
        ],
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          "controversy",
          "controversy"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To cause an uproar or controversy."
      ],
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    }
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  "word": "whip up a storm"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "whips up a storm",
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "whipping up a storm",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "whipped up a storm",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "whipped up a storm",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "head": "whip up a storm"
      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2011, Francis Pike, Empires at War, page 111",
          "text": "However, moral judgement soon deserted America, as Senator Joseph McCarthy, a junior senator from Wisconsin, whipped up a storm of populist terror at the possibility that the USA was already undermined by communists.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2024 March 10, David Hytner, “Doku involved at both ends as Liverpool and Manchester City share spoils”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "It was the kind of storm that Liverpool have whipped up so often under Klopp and yet it would blow out, City stabilising and almost nicking it.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To cause an uproar or controversy."
      ],
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          "uproar",
          "uproar"
        ],
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          "controversy",
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        "(idiomatic) To cause an uproar or controversy."
      ],
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