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
Miss Keller had been deeply affected by Pygmalion and Saint Joan, waited long in a flutter of hero worship for the great Shaw to wake from a nap.
From Time Magazine Archive
She rose in a flutter, like a partridge while the hawk is over, and plucked at her skirt.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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