stir up the animals
English
Verb
stir up the animals
- To cause public discontent or controversy.
- 2001, Richard P. Horwitz, The American Studies Anthology (page 50)
- He styled himself both a Prohibition-flouting "Baltimoron" and "an incurable snob," the voice of "the intelligent minority" determined "to stir up the animals."
- 2013, Rupert Wilkinson, Surviving a Japanese Internment Camp
- The Japanese were often skittish about elections: they wanted to control who they got as top administrators and feared elections might stir up the animals.
- 2001, Richard P. Horwitz, The American Studies Anthology (page 50)