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plural noun (Informal) row, to-do, trouble, storm, dispute, scrap (informal), fuss, disturbance, racket, quarrel, brawl, uproar, fracas, commotion, altercation, rumpus, shindig (informal), hue and cry, scrimmage, shindy (informal) Both activities have caused some ructions.

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[ˈrʌkʃənz] NPL → lío msing, follón m, jaleo msing
there will be ructions → se va a armar la gorda

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[ˈrʌkʃ^ənz] npl → grabuge m
to cause ructions → provoquer du grabuge
there'll be ructions when → il va y avoir du grabuge quand

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[ˈrʌkʃənz] npl (fam) → putiferio msg, finimondo msg
there will be ructions if → succederà il finimondo se

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Fyne easily begged her not to let "that silly thing go back to us any more." There had been, he said, nothing but "ructions" at home about her for the last three weeks.

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"Well, Buck, my boy," he went on in a genial voice, "we've had our little ruction, and the best thing we can do is to let it go at that.

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An' didn't they have words or a ruction of some kind?--for 'twas the other fellow Smoke sent up in the buckets to the top of the mine; an' a piece at a time he went up, a leg to-day, an' to-morrow an arm, the next day the head, an' so on."

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