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Also, all of a dither ; in a flutter or tizzy . In a state of tremulous agitation, as in Planning the wedding put her in a dither , or He tried to pull himself together, but he was all of a dither , or She showed up in such a flutter that our meeting was useless . The noun dither dates from the early 1800s and goes back to the Middle English verb didderen , “to tremble”; in a flutter dates from the mid-1700s; in a tizzy dates from about 1930 and is of uncertain origin.

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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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