aflutter

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He was all aflutter, and asked that I remain, as the General would not be long.

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  1. adjective Being in a flutter; fluttering: with flags aflutter.
  2. adjective Nervous and excited.

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  • She's dead Although Lady Dew did not seem too perturbed, Cyclamen was irritatingly aflutter, asking all sorts of broken questions which Melrose finally had to cut across. —  dirty duck.htm
  • None of the options I could see really set my heart aflutter, but breakfast at the diner next door sounded marginally more appealing than throwing up the majority of my intestines. —  F ;SF; - vol 099 issue 06 - December 2000
  • So earlier this morning, I'm chugging Diet Dr. Pepper and scouring People. com, and I come across a homepage headline that sets my heart aflutter: "Jerry & Tom Pal Around." —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • The "problem", though, which has set the technocrats and tribal politicians aflutter is the —  portland indymedia - features
  • (Feb. 2) -- All it took was a photo of a girl in George Clooney's car to set the celeb gossip world aflutter, as one of Hollywood's biggest bachelors may (or may not) be off of the market. —  Lead Stories from AOL
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