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What are alarums and excursions?

What are alarums and excursions? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. All the sounds and activities of preparations for war.
  2. (idiomatic, by extension) Any frantic activity.
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The Palghat pass, 32 km broad, has played a bigger role in the alarums and excursions of history.
Scattered throughout the script are calls for alarums and excursions, entrances with soldiers, marches, flourishes, parleys, and sennets.
The story quickly died, drowned out by fresher alarums and excursions in Europe and elsewhere.
The French armies were not far off, and there were alarums and excursions all along the border.
Like the recent alarums and excursions in Chile, the present upheaval in Siam is evidently a political expression of the malaise produced by the pressure of the economic crisis.
As 2007 draws to a close, however, it is time to cast our minds back on the incidents and accidents, alarums and excursions that populated the year.

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