trouble brewing

trouble brewing

Difficulty, danger, or unrest that is fermenting or expected to arise in the future. According to many inside the region, there's trouble brewing among working-class voters who felt betrayed by the recent legislative change. We sensed trouble brewing, so we got out of the bar before the fight broke out.
See also: brew, trouble
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • there's trouble brewing
  • trouble is brewing
  • there's storm brewing
  • a storm is brewing
  • brew
  • on red alert
  • storm is brewing
  • brew a plot
  • heaping Pelion upon Ossa
  • salvage (something) from (something or some place)
References in periodicals archive
Call it a baby storm, impending disturbance, anything, there clearly is trouble brewing over the country's hosting of the 2019 Southeast Asian Games later this year.
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No, I said put that chocolate tiffin back There's no trouble brewing in Albert Square after bosses opened a branch of Costa on set.
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Gary thinks he can get a group of investors together to run the vessel as a business, but there's trouble brewing between him and Shane that may scupper everything.
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So when Phil starts getting his affairs in order following his return from Italy, you can see trouble brewing a mile away.
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With deadly trouble brewing, Clare must track down clues in some of New York's most secret places before an old vendetta starts producing fresh corpses.
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Wal-Mart's line of beers came under suspicion initially following a Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/theres-something-brewing-in-the-walmart-beer-aisle-but-you-cant-call-it-craft/2017/01/22/cb5e5668-deaa-11e6-ad42-f3375f271c9c_story.html?utm_term=.486a7d6b686f) analysis of the megachain's Cat's Away IPA, After Party Pal Ale, Round Midnight Belgian White and Pack of Trouble brew that determined Wal-Mart's partnering beer company, Trouble Brewing, didn't actually exist.
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Meanwhile, it's time for the Barlows to get to know each other, but there's trouble brewing.
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Meanwhile, there's more trouble brewing for him when Sarah tells Todd what happened to Callum.
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For starters, there's baby trouble brewing with Leanne's pregnancy from her illicit one-night stand with Steve.
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But there's trouble brewing - Larry falls desperately ill, and with the island's only doctor away, it falls on the meagre medical know-how of Louisa, Theo and handsome neighbour Sven to save him.
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They put me with the British Military Mission and we went by train from Calais to Toulon and from there to Alexandria in Egypt where there was trouble brewing.
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In this week's offering, there's trouble brewing for Jack when a national newspaper publishes extracts from his pregnancy diary.
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