Alarms and excursions

Alarms and excursions :


Alarms and excursions

Confused activity and uproar, humorous

Alarm was formerly spelled alarum, representing a pronunciation with a rolling of the r

The phrase was originally a call summoning soldiers to arms. The whole phrase is used in stage directions in Shakespeare to indicate a battle scene

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