set tongues wagging
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Discovery, expressed interest in combining with Paramount set tongues wagging about a possible union of Hollywood’s top deal candidates.
From New York Times ● Dec. 21, 2023
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
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
She did, however, not want to dance, and, before her first appearance, she managed to set tongues wagging about her beauty, and, as a matter of course, the rumours reached the king's ears.
From An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections by Albert D.
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