Emotions & feelings
kicking and screaming
protesting strongly
Doing something very unwillingly while showing strong anger or resistance.
Hear it in real life
Did your parents accept the move?
Eventually, but they went kicking and screaming.
My brother moved abroad kicking and screaming, but he soon settled in.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: They went kicking and screamingly about the change.
Say: They went kicking and screaming about the change.
“Kicking and screaming” is an idiom used as a phrase, not an adverb formed with “-ly.”
Build it
How it fits in a sentence.
go kicking and screaming; be dragged kicking and screaming
Your turn: say it out loud
My brother moved abroad kicking and screaming, but he soon settled in.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
kicking and screaming
protesting strongly
“My brother moved abroad kicking and screaming, but he soon settled in.”
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