raise a dust

raise a dust

To cause disruption, confusion, or turmoil. Primarily heard in UK. The MP's resignation raised a dust of uncertainty within parliament about the future of the prime minister's agenda.
See also: dust, raise
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

raise a dust

1 cause turmoil. 2 obscure the truth. British
See also: dust, raise
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
See also:
  • make the dust fly
  • make the sparks fly
  • Sparks
  • make the feathers fly
  • make the feathers/fur fly, to
  • make the fur fly
  • reel
  • between the jigs and the reels
  • at a stand
  • chop and change
References in classic literature
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?
Thus Spake Zarathustra