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alarums and excursions

noun

Etymology

From a Shakespearean stage direction, indicating that soldiers should march across the stage, blowing bugles and beating drums, etc.

Definitions

  1. All the sounds and activities of preparations for war.

    • The French armies were not far off, and there were alarums and excursions all along the border.

  2. Any frantic activity.

    • The various alarums and excursions in The Rock that early evening did not dent attendance at these meetings very much […]

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