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Reference
>
Brewer’s Dictionary
> Flutter the Devecotes (
To
).
Flutter.
Fly (plural
flys
).
CONTENTS
·
BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD
E. Cobham Brewer
1810–1897
. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
Flutter the Devecotes (
To
).
To disturb the equanimity of a society. The phrase occurs in
Coriolanus.
1
“The important movement in favour of a general school of law fluttered the dovecotes of the Inns of Court.”—
Nineteenth Century
(Nov., 1892 p. 779).
Flutter.
Fly (plural
flys
).
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