cook up a storm

Definitions

1. 1

   To do a large amount of cooking at once

   To do a large amount of cooking at once; to prepare a great deal of cooked food.

   • When I started to lose weight, she started cooking up a storm.
   • Karen and Dan luxuriated in the outdoors, and Carrie, too, enjoyed being in a house — small as it was — and cooking up a storm for us.
2. 2

   To cause a storm (weather phenomenon).

   • "Sounds like it's cooking up a storm outside." Jennifer nodded.
   • In the time of the Armada the British witches got together and cooked up a storm. They did it again when Hitler was on the way.
   • I briefly wondered if Saint Dane could possibly cook up a storm, but decided that as powerful as this guy was, he did have his limits. I didn't think he could change the weather.
3. 3

   To create a stormy situation

   To create a stormy situation; agitate or enrage.

   • Given this information, my imagination was cooking up a storm of other disrupting possibilities. I slept badly and woke up sick to my stomach.
   • Air and water can cook up a storm if left too much to their own devices.
   • Love and fear were now dehumanised products, trapped beneath his skin but cooking up a storm inside.
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   1. 4

      To make a big fuss, generate a lot of unnecessary talk or activity

      To make a big fuss, generate a lot of unnecessary talk or activity; make a scene.

      • 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.
   2. 5

      To make a splash

      To make a splash; to create a spectacle.

      • Kaffe is really cooking up a storm here, with polychromatic fireworks in shimmering primaries exploding and rioting all over the canvas.
      • A Rogers original, Short Stop has the sax section led by Bill Perkins cooking up a storm.
      • Well, if that's the way it is, I won't ask for further details. Would you like to cook up a storm on the dance floor with me?

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