Meaning of whip up a storm | Babel Free

Definitions

To cause an uproar or controversy.

idiomatic

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

CEFR level