whip up a storm

present singular third person whips up a storm · participle present whipping up a storm · participle past whipped up a storm · past whipped up a storm

1. idiomaticTo cause an uproar or controversy.

   It was the kind of storm that Liverpool have whipped up so often under Klopp and yet it would blow out, City stabilising and almost nicking it.

   2024 March 10, David Hytner, “Doku involved at both ends as Liverpool and Manchester City share spoils”, in The Guardian

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   However, moral judgement soon deserted America, as Senator Joseph McCarthy, a junior senator from Wisconsin, whipped up a storm of populist terror at the possibility that the USA was already undermined by communists.

   2011, Francis Pike, Empires at War, page 111