put the cat among the pigeons
C1CEFR level
65/100Rarity: rare
NeutralRegister
To do or say something that causes trouble, argument or alarm within a group.
Announcing the merger before consulting staff really put the cat among the pigeons.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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