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   hue and cry

   /hjuː(ə)n(d)ˈkrʌɪ/

   noun

   • 1. a loud clamour or public outcry.
   • ▪ a loud cry calling for the pursuit and capture of a criminal. In former English law, the cry had to be raised by the inhabitants of a hundred in which a robbery had been committed, if they were not to become liable for the damages suffered by the victim.

   Word Origin late Middle English: from the Anglo-Norman French legal phrase hu e cri, literally ‘outcry and cry’, from Old French hu ‘outcry’ (from huer ‘to shout’).

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