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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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I am very pleased by that, but what would have happened if there had not been a hue and cry?
Failure to join the hue and cry without a very good reason was a punishable offence.
We heard a hue and cry from one end of the country to the other as a result.
She cites last year's hue and cry over the lack of minorities on network television shows as an example of racialism.
We raise such a hue and cry when a tree is cut down, but with every heavy shower over a dozen trees fall.
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.

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