Pronunciations (2)
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/ˈɹʌk.ʃən/
Pronunciation notes
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ˈɹʌk.ʃən
Noun
A noisy quarrel or fight.
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“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.”
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.
More examples (4)
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
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.
Dad drove and Mum commented on Dad's driving; not too much, but just enough to occasionally lead to ructions.
[…]the geopolitical ructions caused by Donald Trump's muscle-flexing in the Middle East, Vladimir Putin's military aggression and tense economic relations with China.
Noun
the act of making a noisy disturbance
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