Hustle and bustle

[englishhobby]

Can this idiom be used to talk about a noisy party?

In dictionaries it is always used to describe city life:
He wanted a little cottage far away from the hustle and bustle of city life.

Can I say that I don't like the hustle a bustle of some noisy party?

 

[emsr2d2]

I find that rather unnatural. The phrase is a bit too "big" for a party. It refers to all the people, all the traffic, all the noise and all the constant various activities which are happening all the time in a city. A party might be noisy but it doesn't have all of those things.

 

[charliedeut]

If you want to speak of an especially wild party, I think that (at least in the US) you could use the term "house-wrecker" (I first read it, if my memory doesn't fail me in the novel Girlfriend in a Coma​ by Douglas Coupland).

 

[MikeNewYork]

I have been to a few of those. :shock: