scream loudest

scream loudest

To draw attention to a particular cause or problem, typically by overshadowing others. So we get to freeze in here while that department moves to a better office, just because they screamed loudest about the heat not working in this part of the building.
See also: loud, scream
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • any (one) worth (one's) salt
  • freeze on
  • a freeze on (something)
  • freeze (on)to (something)
  • freeze to
  • froze
  • frozen
  • cause (some) eyebrows to raise
  • cause eyebrows to raise and cause some raised eyebrows
  • eyebrow
References in periodicals archive
I, however, know that those who scream loudest and longest against middle-class radicals like Corbyn are of exactly the same ilk, and income, as the plotters and demonstrators against the Maduro regime in Venezuela.
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(By the way isn't it funny how the people who raged for years over the need for public services to be run like private ones, now scream loudest when they are?) And we all hold grudges.
Stop whingeing and vote for our future
These are the result of male-dominated societies--that's why they scream loudest about male homosexuality.
Gay in the Middle East
Portable barricades, or "body bunkers," scream loudest for a laser.
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What his murder has shown us is that those who scream loudest about racism prefer to ignore that because to them it is only different colour skins which matter.
Frank and Fearless: Victims divided by our warped race industry; Two lives brutally ended..two very different reactions
So they get blitzed, start a ruck, and scream loudest, all to show their peers how hard and distinguished they are.
BRIAN READE: Yobs are a symptom of England's disease