alarums and excursions
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alarums and excursions
Frantic activity that causes a clamor. Often seen in Elizabethan drama as a stage direction denoting military activity. What on earth is going on? The alarums and excursions in the living room woke me from a sound sleep—keep it down! It's been nothing but alarums and excursions since the kids got here. That drop in the stock market is sure to set off alarums and excursions in international trading.
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Today the Heber Valley below Timpanogos is witness to no such
alarums and excursions. The mountain looms in primeval splendor, its tip as yet untouched by fire.
There are
alarums and excursions featuring a parrot and a defibrilator, and the scene closes with Eddie dragged hither and thither by a fearsomely realistic wild boar, kept by the pair for its nourishing milk.
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