set tongues wagging
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The ease with which he rounded Leinster fly-half Sam Prendergast to scorch in for a try set tongues wagging among those on the look-out for Lions.
From BBC • May 7, 2025
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
In many other countries, this is likely to be seen as a small incident, nothing to set tongues wagging.
From Washington Post • Mar. 15, 2023
Now the news of their names on the same sailing lists would come to ears at home and set tongues wagging afresh.
From The Tyranny of Weakness by Stahr, Paul
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