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A subject of considerable gossip, as in Turning up drunk at the debutante ball will certainly make you the talk of the town . Already mentioned in two Latin sources, this expression surfaced in English in the mid-1600s.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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