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
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
It's not very remarkable, then, that Susan's appearance in New York—and so far as Maltby's May-Flies know, in some sense under his wing—has set tongues wagging.
From The Book of Susan A Novel by Dodd, Lee Wilson
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