Preposition: of

• life: The pension fund was a stand-alone entity located in a fustian back-office, floors away from the hurly-burly of everyday corporate life.

• world: Alice is a woman at a turning-point, coming out from the protection of a long marriage into the hurly-burly of the wider world.

• debate: There was no substitute for the hurly-burly of free debate.

• city: Often it is the fast challenging and changing hurly-burly of the city that is most explored.