hurly

Related to hurly: hurling, hurly burly, Hurley

hurly-burly

A wild and chaotic situation. Boy, it was a real hurly burly in there once the kids started tearing into their Christmas presents.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

hurly burly

A noisy confusion. To hurl is to throw, and “hurly burly” is based on the image of a mob throwing things around chaotically. The phrase appears in the opening scene of Shakespeare's Macbeth when the witches chant, “When shall we three meet again / In thunder, lightning, or in rain? / When the hurlyburly's done, / When the battle's lost and won.”
See also: burly, hurly
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These shares underlying each option will vest in the event of the termination of the recipient's employment without cause, or by the recipient for good reason, during the 12 months, or 18 months in the case of Hurly, following a change in control in the company.
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Hurly had been with Boenning & Scattergood, Inc, an investment bank, since 2008.
Best is bitter protest song Send Them Kids To War, although its message tends to get lost amid the hurly burly blend of Celtic and Indian influences.
But Boro manager Kevin Wilkin feels the long journey north could bring the best out of his side as they take a break from the hurly burly of the Zamaretto Premier Division and turn their attentions to a competition in which they are overdue a sustained run.
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Giselle finds herself in Manhattan after a wicked witch casts her out of the cartoon world into the hurly burly of real life.
Andrew Hurly says that his team has tested the birds on arrays of fake flowers, only half of which hold nectar.
Our time, not some other dimension, not some greeting card galaxy, but the real hurly burly of our lives, of every culture, of all of our ambitions and failings.
Here he traces the history of the nation at arms and he does so by examining 'some of the myriad individual stories of those who were swept up in the hurly burly of war'.
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But is there truth to this argument that Curia Cardinals are stuffed shirts who know little or nothing about pastoral practice because they are administrators removed from the hurly burly of daily life?
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