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What does hue and cry mean?

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Noun
  1. (historical) The public pursuit of a criminal, accompanied by shouts to warn others to give chase.
  2. (by extension) A loud and persistent public clamour, especially one associated with protest or the making of some demand.
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The hue and cry of this rough popular justice, akin to Europe's chiarivari and skimmingtons, led to the abusive oratory.
What irks me most about this annual ritual of royal fiscal disclosure and the hue and cry that can be relied upon to greet it, is that nothing ever changes.
Failure to join the hue and cry without a very good reason was a punishable offence.
There was no public hue and cry to jail the perpetrator because the victim was apparently an undesirable person.
There is a big hue and cry that those are not going to be continued by the government and this debate is still going on.
We raise such a hue and cry when a tree is cut down, but with every heavy shower over a dozen trees fall.

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