set tongues wagging
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Gore, which helped decide the outcome of that year’s presidential election, the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg set tongues wagging when she closed with a flat “I dissent,” rather than the traditional “I respectfully dissent.”
From Washington Times ● Oct. 1, 2023
The book set tongues wagging in the classical music world and divided critics.
From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2023
An emoji he posted on Twitter in December that implicitly criticized Bottoms set tongues wagging at City Hall.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 4, 2021
But his gestures and gags have a sort of built-in futility, analogous, perhaps, to his painting with the built-in shredder: They are designed only to set tongues wagging.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 7, 2018
Aphrodite could do what she chose and no one worried; but an indiscretion of Artemis set tongues wagging.
From The Mountebank by Locke, William John
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