Citations:say boo

English citations of say boo

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Verb: "to say anything, especially to complain or protest"

• 1956 [1956 April 25], T. R. Rawlings, quotee, Extension of Purchase Programs of Strategic and Critical Minerals […] ‎^[1], →OCLC, page 231:

  The fact of the matter is, we dumped 10 times as much material after the war was over in other lines than what we have in this stock-pile and nobody said boo. Trucks and guns and planes, and what-not, were spoiled and thrown away and nobody said a word about it.

• 2023, Matt Howe, Barbra Streisand: the Music, the Albums, the Singles‎^[2], →ISBN:

  Well, the session ended at five thirty in the morning with the full orchestra still there, and nobody said boo; no one complained for a minute.