| Officials said the evacuations were precautionary but some parents went into a swivet, demanding to know why the schools had not been checked when they were empty. |
| It is in a perpetual swivet stoked by media for which every interinstitutional dust-up is a crisis. |
| He has all the sexual magnetism of a boiled potato, and it is hard to believe that such a bland fellow could throw the likes of her into such a swivet. |
| And then there are the vinegary tweets that have put Foggy Bottom in a swivet. |
| I know the White House is in an absolute swivet over this, as is the State Department. |
