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hoo-hah

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hoo-ha or hoo-hah  (h)
n. Slang
1. A fuss; a disturbance: "the subject of this last hoo-hah" (William Safire).
2. A chortle or laugh: got a good hoo-ha out of that story.

[Perhaps from Yiddish hu-ha, to-do, uproar, exclamation.]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.hoo-hah - a disorderly outburst or tumult; "they were amazed by the furious disturbance they had caused"
disorder - a disturbance of the peace or of public order
turmoil, upheaval, convulsion - a violent disturbance; "the convulsions of the stock market"
earthquake - a disturbance that is extremely disruptive; "selling the company caused an earthquake among the employees"
incident - a public disturbance; "the police investigated an incident at the bus station"
stir, splash - a prominent or sensational but short-lived news event; "he made a great splash and then disappeared"
tempest, storm - a violent commotion or disturbance; "the storms that had characterized their relationship had died away"; "it was only a tempest in a teapot"
storm center, storm centre - a center of trouble or disturbance
garboil, tumult, tumultuousness, uproar - a state of commotion and noise and confusion


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But this hoo-hah does highlight how the internet increasingly affects our lives, little thought being given to its implications regarding availability, security and confidentiality.
But after all the hoo-hah over the rights of Nepalese Gurkhas to live in Britain, let's have no less of a welcome for the 500 elderly destitute Britons from Zimbabwe (where inflation reached 230m%) and whose repatriation is also rightly being paid for by British taxpayers.
IT is difficult to understand all the hoo-hah about the problem of where to obtain our future supply of electricity and the colossal cost of replacing the coal fired stations.
 
 
 
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