| 单词 | to flutter the dovecotes |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto flutter the dovecotes b. figurative. To throw (a person) into confusion, agitation, or tremulous excitement. to flutter the dovecotes: to alarm, or cause excited discussion among, quiet people (cf. quot. 1664). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > excitement > nervous excitement > cause nervous excitement or agitate [verb (transitive)] to carry away?1529 agitate1591 fermentate1599 tumultuate1616 alarm1620 overwork1645 uncalm1650 flutter1664 pother1692 to set afloata1713 fluctuate1788 fuss1816 tumult1819 to break up1825 rile1857 to steam up1860 to shake up1884 the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > causing apprehension or alarm > give the alarm [verb (intransitive)] > alarm quiet people to flutter the dovecotes1853 1664 Shakspere's Coriolanus (F. 3) v. vi. 116 Like an Eagle in a Dove-coat, I Flutter'd your Volcians in Coriolus. 1751 S. Richardson Clarissa (ed. 3) III. iv. 37 You flutter one so! 1784 E. Hazard in J. Belknap Belknap Papers (1877) I. 382 I am so fatigued and fluttered with my walk. 1853 E. Bulwer-Lytton My Novel III. ix. xiii. 69 Nor did the great Roman general more nervously ‘flutter the dove-cots in Corioli’, than did the advance of the supposed X.Y. agitate the bosoms of Lord Spendquick and his sympathising friends. 1864 J. A. Froude Sci. Hist. in Short Stud. (1867) 2 A work which..fluttered the dove~cotes of the Imperial Academy of St. Petersburg. 1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues I. 510 If I thought that your nerves could be fluttered at a small party of friends. 1940 C. P. Snow Strangers & Brothers ii. 24 ‘How are they taking it?’ said George. ‘It's fluttered the dove-cotes.’ < as lemmas |
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