make sb. look like a fool(In 1726, while at the theater, Voltaire made a clever remark to the Chevalier de Rohan, a young nobleman, who resented that Voltaire made him look like a fool.Andrey Truhachev)
set up picket lines(организовать группу протеста, обычно перед правительственным или промышленным зданием to organize a group of protesters, usually in front of a governmental or commercial building)