in a flutter

flutter | American Dictionary

flutter
verb[ I/T ]
us/ˈflʌt̬·ər/
to move in quick, irregular motions, or to cause something to move this way:
[ I ]The flags fluttered in the breeze.
If your heart flutters, it beats faster than usual, often from excitement.
flutter
noun[ Cusually sing ]
us/ˈflʌt̬·ər/
a quick, irregular movement:
There was a flutter of wings overhead.

flutter | Business English

flutter
noun[ S ]
UKinformaluk /ˈflʌtər/us
a small amount of money that someone risks on a bet or investment:
take/have a flutter on sthMany people nowadays take a flutter on commodities and foreign exchange.

Examples of flutter

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Though it was adopted energetically, its real impact eventually proved negligible, except for an initial flutter of activity.
Superimposed in three tracks or layers, the continuing pitches create a world of rich, vibrating, fluttering sounds.
There were 3 episodes of recurrent atrial fibrillation or flutter; antiarrhythmic agents restored sinus rhythm in all.
Atrial flutter and sinus nodal dysfunction in this patient, however, correlated with cardiac enlargement and tricuspid regurgitation.
In conclusion, radiofrequency catheter ablation is an effective treatment of atrial flutter after surgery for congenital heart defects in young patients.
Junctional tachychardia and atrial flutter are successfully treated by radio-frequency ablation (42).
Of the fetuses, 300 had arrhythmias, 34 of them supraventricular tachyarrhythmias; 15 patients with atrial flutter were selected for presentation.
The previously reported patient with asymptomatic atrial flutter, has been off medication for two years without recurrence.
This signal was shorted when the probe was stopped, so that it could be used for flutter compensation if needed.
Around this ground element, one hears percussive gestures, staccato sounds, patterns of repeated sounds, high vibratos or fluttering sounds, glottal stops and multiphonics.
Synchronous diaphragmatic flutter, tachypnoea, stiff gait, profuse sweating and ataxia are possible clinical signs of hypocalcaemia, but were not observed during this race4,8,32.
Synthesizing timbre tremolos and flutter tonguing on wind instruments.
These include heart rate arrhythmias, slower heart rate recoveries, muscle cramps and fasciculations, as well as increased or decreased intestinal motility and synchronous diaphragmatic flutter.
She was all in a flutter, the poor old dear!
The flutter in the artificial pipe tinges the heroine's music with the lifeless.
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