thorough nuisance

He's made such a thorough nuisance of himself-and stolen their thunder in the Forum!

In America the Norway maple, Acer platanoides, has made a thorough nuisance of itself.

'And horrible, dirty little ghosts like you who lie and fib and never stop making a thorough nuisance of themselves!'

That means he can override the imperium of a governor, commandeer the governor's soldiers or militia, call up auxiliaries, and generally make a thorough nuisance of himself until his term as consul runs out.

I have found it useful, when a child is being a thorough nuisance, making exasperating demands, to say to myself: 'He/she is not trying to be a 'problem'; he/she is trying to solve a problem.

I can't get out of the habit of calling him Little Gaius because that's how I see him-as a dear little boy toddling around behind me making a thorough nuisance of himself."

In the air, Russland planes were over Nordsbergen twenty-four hours a day, flying low, flying high, buzzing cities and military installations, watching everything that went on, doing little damage but making a thorough nuisance of themselves.

By the time the Public Enquiry was held into Williams' affairs in 1945 his personal qualities of drive and persistence had become more than a thorough nuisance, as the Dominion Office had failed to get to the bottom of what he was up to.