in a flutter
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A scroll through social media suggests that many city councils across Ukraine are planning mini marches, in a flutter of patriotism and defiance.
From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2022
That’s a line that Barbara Stanwyck would have delivered in one of two ways: spitting it out for melodrama, hot and sour, or tossing it away in a flutter of foolish chat.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 24, 2015
Isadora, in a flutter of unpaid bills and lisping parasites, refuses to give way to age.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ralph West Robey is 35 and a bachelor, handsome enough to have kept Topeka's young women in a flutter since his arrival.
From Time Magazine Archive
Palmer stomped his foot, sending Nipper in a flutter from the basket rim.
From "Wringer" by Jerry Spinelli
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