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Kick Up a Row (To)

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To create a disturbance. “A pretty kick up” is a great disturbance. The phrase “To kick up the dust” explains the other phrases.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Keys (The House of)
Keyne (St.)
Khedive dEgypte
Khorassan [Region of the Sun]
Ki
Kiak-Kiak (god of gods)
Kick (A)
Kick Over the Traces (To)
Kick the Beam (To)
Kick the Bucket (To)
Kick Up a Row (To)
Kickshaws
Kicksy-wicksy
Kid (A)
Kid (A)
Kidderminster Poetry
Kidnapper (A)
Kidney
Kilda (St.)
Kildare
Kildare’s Holy Fane