flutter in the dovecote

短语

发音

UK /ˌflʌtə ɪn‿ðə ˈdʌvkɒt/
US /ˌflʌtɚ ɪn‿ðə ˈdʌvkɑt/
US /-ɾɚ-/

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A disturbance, usually one caused within a group of people who are generally placid and unexcited.

    习语

词源

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.”

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