Idiom
make noise
Meaning
To scold, condemn, or criticize very harshly.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The boss will make noise if you arrive late again.”
“The neighbors started to make noise when we played loud music after midnight.”
“The public began to make noise regarding the senator's recent controversial policy decisions.”
Examples
simple
“The boss will make noise if you arrive late again.”
contextual
“The neighbors started to make noise when we played loud music after midnight.”
complex
“The public began to make noise regarding the senator's recent controversial policy decisions.”
Origin
Attested as a semantic loan from the Tamil சத்தம் போடு (cattam pōṭu), a construction translating literally to the production of sound. The expression entered the English lexicon through linguistic contact with the Tamil language.
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