If you do want to go home, here’s your whip. Don’t fall off. Say to her you wanted it, or there might be ructions.
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Ruction
//ˈɹʌk.ʃən//
Synonyms for "ruction" (79 found)
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25 translations across 13 languages.
Bashkir
2 entries- талаш noun (noisy quarrel or fight)
- ыҙғыш noun (noisy quarrel or fight)
Bulgarian
2 entries- кавга noun (noisy quarrel or fight)
- караница noun (noisy quarrel or fight)
Czech
1 entries- povyk noun (noisy quarrel or fight)
Dutch
4 entries- herrie noun (noisy quarrel or fight)
- krakeel noun (noisy quarrel or fight)
- oproer noun (noisy quarrel or fight)
- tumult noun (noisy quarrel or fight)
Finnish
1 entries- rähinä noun (noisy quarrel or fight)
French
1 entries- rixe noun (noisy quarrel or fight)
German
1 entries- Aufruhr noun (noisy quarrel or fight)
Italian
1 entries- rissa noun (noisy quarrel or fight)
Māori
3 entries- heihei noun (noisy quarrel or fight)
- tutūnga noun (noisy quarrel or fight)
- tutūnga o te puehu noun (noisy quarrel or fight)
Polish
2 entries- zajście noun (noisy quarrel or fight)
- zamieszanie noun (noisy quarrel or fight)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- ramaidh noun (noisy quarrel or fight)
Spanish
2 entries- pelea noun (noisy quarrel or fight)
- reyerta noun (noisy quarrel or fight)
Swedish
3 entries- bråk noun (noisy quarrel or fight)
- gruff noun (noisy quarrel or fight)
- gräl noun (noisy quarrel or fight)
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She could see there were going to be ructions. Sure enough there'd be a scene between them, when Sebastian found what Tilly had been up to.
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Although she acknowledged that the development of an opera house had caused considerable ructions in Australia, she nevertheless implied that its construction was a sort of coming-of-age for the rough antipodeans
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While the U.S. government had a huge fiscal deficit, similar to Greece's, the financial ructions emanating from Athens sent nervous money flocking to the United States, not away.
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