tip, in flap, flutter, aflutter, flap over, stay-at-home father or a mother

Natural History Museum, London 。

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With a tropical butterfly house taking shape on the East Lawn, we're looking forward to seeing its residents fluttering in soon.

‪#‎SensationalButterflies‬ is open from Thurs 2 April, with tickets available to book online now: http://bit.ly/NHM_Sensational-Butterflies

An ambitious free trade agreement (FTA) that was agreed in principle by President Xi Jinping of China and Australia’s prime minister, Tony Abbott, on the sidelines of a recent G20 summit in Brisbane has Chinese businessmen aflutter. What explains this apparent zeal for opening? Some in China see Australia as a good place to experimenthttp://econ.st/1yktjAr
How does being a stay-at-home father or a mother who is the chief breadwinner affect your marriage, family or career?

Wall Street Mothers, Stay-Home Fathers

nytimes.com

Growing numbers of women on Wall Street say a stay-at-home husband is allowing them to compete at work with new intensity.

' I like a flutter myself, could you give me a tip, I wonder, for Brighton on Saturday?'
'Black Boy,' Hale said,'in the four o'clock.'
'He's twenty to one.'
Hale looked at her with respect. 'Take it or leave it.'
---Brighton Rock  by Graham Greene


Obama Unhurt By Flap Over Stay-At-Home Mothers
A new poll suggests the president still has a comfortable lead over Mitt Romney among women voters.
 he so-called Mommy Wars that were ignited last week by a Democratic strategist's suggestion Ann Romney had "never worked a day in her life" don't seem to have cost President Obama among women voters.






Amazon, Penguin in Flap

Amazon has begun selling a number of new hardcovers published by Penguin Group (USA) for only $9.99 amid a dispute over electronic books.

ON NOVEMBER 25th the venerable Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan experienced a volley of camera flashes, jostling television crews and shouts of “heads down at the front!”—the sort of attention it has rarely enjoyed since the country began its gentle slide down the world’s news agenda. The occasion was the return to Japan of Michael Woodford, the former boss of Olympus, a Tokyo-based lens-maker, who had been fired in October after he started asking awkward questions about $1.3 billion in suspicious transactions. His subject, in a nutshell, was corporate governance—not something that, in the abstract, usually sets reporters’ hearts aflutter. But as the club pointed out, not even the Dalai Lama had drawn such a crowd.


flutter

• [flʌ'tər]

[動](自)

1 〈旗・帆などが〉はためく, ぱたぱたする；ひるがえる；〈花びら・木の葉が〉ひらひら舞う［揺れる, 震える］

Leaves fluttered down.
木の葉がひらひら舞い落ちた.

2 〈鳥が〉羽ばたきする；〈小鳥・チョウが〉ぱたぱた［ひらひら］飛ぶ.

3 動悸(どうき)を打つ, 震える, 〈まぶたなどが〉ぴくぴくする.

4 〈人が〉（恐怖で）びくびくする, 震える, おののく；（期待・希望・興奮で）胸がおどる, はらはらする((with ...))

flutter with new hope
新たな希望にわくわくする.

5 ほっつき回る；（いらいらして）うろうろする, （忙しそうに）ばたばたする((about)).

6 ((英俗))少額を賭(か)ける.

━━(他)

1 〈旗・帆・ハンカチなどを〉ぱたぱた振る, ひらひらさせる；〈鳥が〉〈翼を〉ぱたぱた打つ；〈くちびる・まぶたなどを〉震わせる；〈本のページなどを〉ぱらぱらめくる.

2 〈人を〉あわてさせる；…をうろたえて言う.

3 ((英略式))…に少額を賭ける.

━━[名]

1 [U][C]((the ［a］ 〜))羽ばたき；（旗などの）はためき；（手を）振ること；（心臓の）動悸

the flutter of a flame
揺らめく炎.

2 ((a 〜))（心の）動揺, どきどきすること, 興奮；（世間の）大騒ぎ, 混乱, 動揺, センセーション

in a flutter
どきまぎ［動揺］して

all of a flutter
ひどく興奮して, ぶるぶる震えて

cause a flutter
世間を騒がせる, 動揺を引き起こす.

3 ＝flutter kick.

4 （録音の）再生むら；（テレビ画面の）ちらつき.

5 ((英略式))（少額の）投機, 山賭け

do ［have］ a flutter at ［in, on］ ...
…に一山張る.

［古英語floterian（flotian浮ぶ＋-er-反復を示す語尾）. △CLAMBER, CHATTER］

flut・ter・er

[名]

flut・ter・y

[形]はためく；ひらひらする.

aflutter
(ə-flŭt'ər) 
adj.

1. Being in a flutter; fluttering: with flags aflutter.
2. Nervous and excited.

ADJECTIVE

[PREDICATIVE]

In a state of tremulous excitement:he has the physique that could send a thousand female hearts aflutter

tip[tip²]

• レベル：大学入試程度
• 発音記号[típ]

[名]

1 チップ, 心づけ, 祝儀

reward a porter with a big［a fat］ tip
ポーターにチップをはずむ

give a tip to a waiter
給仕にチップをやる.

2 ((略式))（賭(か)け・投機などについての）内報, 秘密情報((that節))；（…についての）情報, 予想；（…についての）助言, 警告, 暗示, ヒント, 秘けつ, 秘法((about, for, on ...)). ⇒ADVICE[類語]

a straight tip
((俗))確かな情報；率直な忠告

tips about running
ランニングのこつ

miss one's tip
予想がはずれる, 失敗する

get a good tip for a race
レースのいい内報を得る

give a person a tip on a horse
人に競馬の情報を提供する

take a person's tip
人の助言を当てにする.

━━[動]（〜ped, 〜・ping）(他)

1 ［IV[名][名]/III[名]］〈人に〉〈…を〉チップとしてやる；〈人に〉チップをやる

tip a barber a dollar
理髪師に1ドルのチップをやる.

2 ((通例受身))((英))〈人に〉内々に情報［予想］を伝える, 〈勝者・勝馬などを〉予想する；［V[名]as[名]］〈人を〉（優勝者・候補者として）あげる

tip a winner ［a loser］
勝者［敗者］を予想する

be strongly tipped as next council president
次期委員長の呼び声が高い.

3 ((略式))〈人に〉〈会釈・目くばせなどを〉する；与える

tip (a person) a signal
（人に）そっと合図する

Let's ask him to tip us a tune.
一曲弾いてもらうよう彼に頼もう.

━━(自)チップをやる.

tip ... off/tip off ...

((略式))〈人に〉（有利になるように）内密の情報を漏らす；〈人・警察などに〉（…について）内報［密告, 警告］する((to, about ..., that節))

He tipped me off to the fact.
その事実をそっと知らせてくれた

Someone tipped off the thieves that the police were coming.
どろぼうに警官が来ると内通した者がいる.

flap
n.

1. A flat, usually thin piece attached at only one side.
2. A projecting or hanging piece usually intended to double over and protect or cover: the flap of an envelope.
3. 1. The act of waving or fluttering: the flap of the flag in the wind.
   2. The sound produced by this motion.
4. A blow given with something flat; a slap.
5. A variable control surface on the trailing edge of an aircraft wing, used primarily to increase lift or drag.
6. Either of the folded ends of a book jacket that fit inside the front and back covers.
7. Medicine. Tissue that has been partially detached and used in surgical grafting to fill an adjacent defect or cover the cut end of a bone after amputation.
8. Linguistics. A sound articulated by a single, quick touch of the tongue against the teeth or alveolar ridge, as (t) in water. Also called tap.
9. Informal. A commotion or disturbance: a flap in Congress over the defense budget.

v., flapped, flap·ping, flaps. v.tr.

1. To wave (the arms, for example) up and down.
2. To cause to move or sway with a fluttering or waving motion.
3. To hit with something broad and flat; slap.
4. Informal. To fling down; toss.

v.intr.

1. To move or sway while fixed at one edge or corner; flutter: banners flapping in the breeze.
2. To wave arms or wings up and down.
3. To fly by beating the air with the wings.
4. Informal. To become upset or flustered.

[Middle English flappe, slap.]