flutter the dovecote

动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˌflʌtə ðə ˈdʌvkɒt/    美 /ˌflʌtɚ ðə ˈdʌvkɑt/|[-ɾɚ-]

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To create a disturbance, usually within a group of people who are generally placid and unexcited. idiomatic

词形变化

flutters the dovecote present,singular,third-person fluttering the dovecote participle,present fluttered the dovecote participle,past fluttered the dovecote past flutter the dovecot alternative flutter the dovecotes alternative

词源

Possibly from Coriolanus (written c. 1608–1609; published 1623) by the English playwright William Shakespeare (1564–1616), Act V, scene vi (spelling modernized): “[L]ike an eagle in a dovecote, I / Fluttered your Volcians in Corioles.”
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