“Raise hell”in other languages
Cause a big commotion.
English
French
Hindi
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EnglishFrenchHindiItalianSpanishSame idea, different pictures
English and Italian call up the devil: raising hell or raising Cain, the Bible's first murderer, and fare il diavolo a quattro, making the devil four times over. Hindi lifts the sky onto its head, आसमान सिर पर उठाना.
Spanish stages a battle, armar la de San Quintín, after the Battle of Saint-Quentin in 1557. French makes a ramdam, a racket, a word that comes from Ramadan and the lively nights that follow each day's fast.
More sayings in other languages
- Read someone the riot act
- Rest on one's laurels
- Without rhyme or reason
- Go around the houses
- Rub salt in the wound
- Sell someone a bill of goods
- Send someone packing
- Set one's sights on something
- Shoot oneself in the foot