"Alarms and excursions" nghĩa là gì?

"Alarms and excursions" = báo động và đánh thọc (bắt nguồn từ tiếng gọi binh lính tập hợp trong quân đội, được dùng để dựng cảnh đánh nhau trong kịch của Shakespeare) -> nghĩa (hài hước) là hoạt động ồn ào và huyên náo.

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Such alarms and excursions could make the rupee fall even more against the US dollar, giving us less bang for our buck. Or should that be for our yuck (khiếp quá)?

Continuing alarms and excursions after the US election seem to have rattled the dollar. While counting continues, there remains a real threat of lawsuits and court cases concerning the result. The lead so far among electoral college votes for the Democratic Party candidate Joe Biden does not so far appear to have steadied nerves on currency markets (sàn giao dịch tiền tệ).

In the same tome he remembers his time in Rottingdean – with his wife Carrie and daughters Josephine and Ellie – as a tranquil (yên bình) period in his life. ‘Beyond turning out at 2am to help a silly foxhound (chó săn cáo) puppy who had stuck in a drain, I do not remember any violent alarms and excursions other than packing farm-carts filled with babies and despatching them into the safe, clean heart of the motherly Downs for jam-smeared picnics.’

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