to cause a public scene
Catarina armou o maior barraco na frente da casa do próprio irmão.
Catarina caused the biggest scene in front of her own brother's house.
In Brazil a barraco is a flimsy, improvised shack thrown together out of whatever is at hand. The slang armar um barraco means staging a loud scene in public — shouting, quarrelling and making a spectacle. The shack image does not by itself establish the expression’s historical origin.
Source: Priberam.
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