alarm bell
Noun
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Noun
alarm bell (plural alarm bells)
- Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see alarm, bell
- (figuratively, usually in plural) A sudden awareness of danger.
- 1998, Michele Gillespie, Catherine Clinton, Taking off the white gloves: Southern women and women historians
- The specter of women in factories, women in schoolrooms, and women attending — a lot less addressing — public meetings set off alarm bells in the South.
- 1998, Michele Gillespie, Catherine Clinton, Taking off the white gloves: Southern women and women historians
- German: Alarmglocke
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