flare-upnoun [ C usually singular ]
uk/ˈfleə.rʌp/us/ˈfler.ʌp/a situation in which something such as violence, pain, or anger suddenly starts or gets much worse:
There was another flare-up of rioting later that day.
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Beginnings and starts
- a baptism of/by fire idiom
- a clean sheet/slate idiom
- advent
- baptism
- beginning
- clean
- inception
- initiation
- institution
- introduction
- jumping-off point
- onset
- seed
- square
- starting time
- the outset
- the thin end of the wedge idiom
- thin
- trigger
- zero hour
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