set the cat among the pigeons Idiom, Proverb

Cat among the pigeons

If something or someone puts, or sets or lets, the cat among the pigeons, they create a disturbance and cause trouble.

put the cat among the pigeons

cause trouble: "Don't tell her about your promotion - that will really put the cat among the pigeons."

set the cat amid the pigeons

To do or say article that is acceptable to account alarm, controversy, or agitation amid a lot of people. Primarily heard in UK. The prime minister's accidental animadversion about the role of ethnicity in unemployment numbers has predictably set the cat amid the pigeons on both abandon of the political spectrum. We didn't appetite to set the cat amid the pigeons, so we absitively not to acknowledgment the bomb blackmail until we knew for assertive that it was legitimate.Learn more: among, cat, pigeon, set

put/set the cat amid the ˈpigeons

(British English, informal) do article that is acceptable to account trouble: She told all the agents they would accept to abolish their holidays, and that absolutely set the cat amid the pigeons.Learn more: among, cat, pigeon, put, set

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