whip up a storm

Verb

whip up a storm (third-person singular simple present whips up a storm, present participle whipping up a storm, simple past and past participle whipped up a storm)

1. (idiomatic) To cause an uproar or controversy.
   • 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
   • 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