Flutter the Devecotes (To)
.To disturb the equanimity of a society. The phrase occurs in Coriolanus.
“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).
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.