What is the meaning?
What does the following sentence mean, especially "to kick up dickens"?

Given Georgia’s death at Hugh’s hands, that particular bequest could have provided probate attorneys with twenty years’ worth of legal munching and tasty fees, but since there was no one to kick up dickens (I certainly wasn’t going to), there was no wrangle.

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What is the meaning?
What does the following sentence mean, especially "to kick up dickens"?

Given Georgia’s death at Hugh’s hands, that particular bequest could have provided probate attorneys with twenty years’ worth of legal munching and tasty fees, but since there was no one to kick up dickens (I certainly wasn’t going to), there was no wrangle.

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I have not heard this expression before but from the context it means to create a fuss.

Hope this helps.

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"Dickens" means a lot, basically.  It goes back to at least Shakespeare's times.  An expression such as "it hurts like the dickens' means it hurts a lot.  "There was a dickens of a fuss" - there was a big fuss about something.  It has a slightly old-fashioned air to it.  It is the sort of word you might hear from a crusty old colonel in an Agatha Christie novel - probably not in common usage these days.

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