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What (who) is hurly-burly - definition

FRENCH PSYCHOLOGIST
Hurly-Burly (journal)

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Hurly-Burly; Hurly Burly
If you talk about the hurly-burly of a situation, you are emphasizing how noisy or busy it is.
No one expects him to get involved in the hurly-burly of campaigning.
N-SING: usu the N, oft N of n [emphasis]
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Hurly-Burly; Hurly Burly
·noun Tumult; bustle; confusion.
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Hurly-Burly; Hurly Burly
n.
(Colloq.) Hurl, hurly, turmoil, tumult, commotion, confusion, bustle, disturbance.

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Jacques-Alain Miller

Jacques-Alain Miller (French: [milɛʁ]; born 14 February 1944) is a psychoanalyst and writer. He is one of the founder members of the École de la Cause freudienne (School of the Freudian Cause) and the World Association of Psychoanalysis which he presided from 1992 to 2002. He is the sole editor of the books of The Seminars of Jacques Lacan.

Examples of use of hurly-burly
1. Such is the hurly–burly of Kenya‘s non–ideological politics.
2. In addition to the hurly–burly nature of her political life, Miss Widdecombe also finds time to write novels.
3. But for a Pakistani boy suddenly thrust into the hurly burly of Mansfield‘s high school, the culture shock was debilitating.
4. Since then, Kerrey has seemed content to live the life of a private citizen, away from the hurly–burly of electoral politics.
5. Neither option is welcome to a politician who has tried to appeal to voters as a moderate, statesman–like figure above the hurly–burly of party politics.