Definition
To make a big fuss, generate a lot of unnecessary talk or activity; make a scene.
In Context
- "Iranians cook up a storm in Harare: Iran's President Ali Khamenei, on the final leg of a six-nation tour in mid- January, became embroiled in what the Zimbabwe Herald termed an "unprecedented diplomatic incident" when he refused to attend a banquet held in his honor by Prime Minister Robert Mugabe."
- "Well the weather is similar, the hot dang LLVs are still cooking up a storm yet we hardly get the old Hill Street Blues adage of "Let's be careful out there" and any form of liquid is noticable^([sic]) by its absence."
- "If she was mad at me, she'd frown, stomp around a lot, cook up a storm, then talk when she'd calmed down."
- "The British, by this time ensconced in Batavia, cooked up a storm of manufactured outrage in response and despatched a fleet to Palembang."