hurly-burly Meaning & Definition

  • En [ ˈhɜː.liˌbɜː.li]
  • Us [ ˈhɝː.liˌbɝː.li]

Meaning of hurly-burly In English

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Examples of hurly-burly

  • What is all this hurly-burly about the postmodern condition?

  • Professionals within a census bureau think of themselves as demographers, scientists intentionally removed from the hurly-burly and ambiguities of politics and policy-making.

  • Heresthetics can win votes not only in the rarified climes of the spatial model but also on the ground, in the day-to-day hurly-burly of an actual campaign.

  • He used the phrase "the hurly-burly of politics on the watch committee".

  • I have heard tonight that there are so many people wanting to get away from the hurly-burly of the factory and retire.

  • They have advanced the age since, but even now in the hurly-burly of life a child generally forgets what it learned at 14.

  • This latter treatment is one which can easily be forgotten in the hurly-burly of spring, the coming of the silage, and so on.

  • The colliery owners or their agents meet at the head offices in different surroundings and away from the hurly-burly of the pits.

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