kick up a dust
raise a dust

I know you were kicking up a dust last night, the pair of you.

Thought you wouldn't wish to kick up a dust.

The dirt turned to sand, and our wheels kicked up a dust storm.

It was streaking across the landscape, actually kicking up a dust trail from the ground.

'He always kicks up a dust when we're in company.

Instead, it kicks up a dust cloud as the battle ensues out of sight.

There - could be nothing better for these men than kicking up a dust on shore, and for that they must have money.'

It's prize-money alone lets a seaman kick up a dust ashore, for precious little does he see of his pay.

Sammy Tigertail sprinted after him, kicking up a dust of ancient shells and warrior bones.

The blast kicked up a dust cloud, and Dimitri hit the gas again, not waiting for the roiled dirt to settle.

--and you won't even be able to eat your dinner in peace, because he might wake up, and start kicking up a dust.

Haider noticed a vehicle in the near-distance, kicking up a dust cloud in its wake, and his heart sank.

Dr. Keen, a former contributing editor to "Psychology Today," kicks up a dust storm of popular psychology.

The research also found that winds have to whip across the region at a minimum of 36 km/h (22 mi/h), to kick up a dust storm.

"As soon as Fate allows, I will have a Magazine of my own-and will endeavor to kick up a dust," he wrote in 1839.

A gust of wind kicked up a dust devil down the dirt lane that led into the ranch and we were both distracted watching it flourish and die.

"And you're to do it without raising a dust."

But the tanks to the right raised a dust storm that more than made up for the lowered temperatures.

Their sonic shock waves raised a dust cloud behind them.

You may indeed raise a dust with those terms, and so lengthen our dispute to no purpose.

She got into the car as carefully as possible to avoid raising a dust cloud.

"He can't even raise a dust devil any more.

Moving five hundred warriors by day would raise a dust cloud a child would recognize.

As for young Dionysios, the soldiers had raised a dust, and it was too far to see faces well.

She wrestles the trike off the road and cuts across country, moving slowly so as not to raise a dust cloud.

"Josephus is in that town," Vespasian said as he moved about the tent, raising a dust in spite of the rugs that covered the ground.

'You must own it was the only thing to be done, with you saying you didn't wish to go driving with us, and threatening to raise a dust!

The moon rises and the engines howl and Cowboy keeps his speed in check so as not to raise a dust signature that might be picked up on radar.

"The British navy would have to be licked for one; and for another, Miller here, now, and I, we'd raise a dust, wouldn't we, Miller?

He gave emeralds to his guests, could raise a dust storm with his convoys of Hispano-Suiza's or raise an army of tribesman overnight.

But, in pointing out the inequities in the situation, the CEOs have raised a dust storm that seems to obscure other important issues relating to corporate auditing and accounting.

He rode out of the forest onto the yellow road that led into La Granja and the horses' hooves raised a dust that hung over them as they rode.

The entire front of a tall four-story brick building in Third street sprung outward like a door and fell sprawling across the street, raising a dust like a great volume of smoke!

Should one lay hold of them, then do they raise a dust like flour-sacks, and involuntarily: but who would divine that their dust came from corn, and from the yellow delight of the summer fields?

Once when they were crossing an upland where the grass was sweet, they saw to the east a vast movement', ten miles, twenty miles, fifty miles across, coming slowly toward them, raising a dust that obliterated the sun.

Skies will be largely clear over most of the country for the next seven days or so, forecasters said, in the wake of a cold front that raised a dust storm on Tuesday as gale winds swept out of the north.

A contingent of chariots under Luan Zhi swept in front and dragged tree branches to raise a dust cloud and thereby obscure the movements of Hu Mao's men who were circling and reforming.

There were loaded trucks moving up the road too, and all of them raised a dust that Andrés could not see in that dark but could only feel as a cloud that blew in his face and that he could bite between his teeth.