Meaning of flutter in the dovecote | Babel Free

Definitions

A disturbance, usually one caused within a group of people who are generally placid and unexcited.

idiomatic

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Examples

“I further argued that the principal cause for the political deadlock that persisted for thirty years after the guns fell silent was Israeli intransigence rather than Arab intransigence. The appearance of the first wave of revisionist studies excited a great deal of interest and controversy in the media and more than a flutter in the academic dovecote.”

CEFR level