flutter in the dovecote
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flutter in the dovecote
- /ˌflʌtə ɪn‿ðə ˈdʌvkɒt/ UK
- /ˌflʌtɚ ɪn‿ðə ˈdʌvkɑt/ US
- [-ɾɚ-] US
Where it comes from
Probably from flutter the dovecote, possibly from Coriolanus (written c. 1608–1609; published 1623) by the English playwright William Shakespeare (1564–1616), Act V, scene vi (spelling modernized): “[L]ike an eagle in a dovecote, I / Fluttered your Volcians in Corioles.”
noun
- A disturbance, usually one caused within a group of people who are generally placid and unexcited. I further argued that the principal cause for the political deadlock that persisted for thirty years after the guns fell silent was Israeli intransigence rather than Arab intransigence. The appearance of the first wave of revisionist studies excited a great deal of interest and controversy in the me
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noun disturbance, usually one caused within a group of people who are generally placid and unexcited — see also disturbance
| Русский | переполо́х в курятнике perepolóx v kurjatnike |
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