flurry of activity• In a flurry of activity, this deal was concluded right on the year-end deadline.• Alvin flew into a flurry of activity, managing to overspend the grants without finishing his own projects.• There are street sounds: cars, people calling, little flurries of activity, occasionalvoices next door.• There was a further little flurry of activity.• But some analysts question whether the flurry of activity makes sense.• The flurry of activity is in preparation for the worst-case scenario for winterrainfall.• Inevitably, this flurry of activity has created some internalturmoil.• Despite many and variedflurries of activity in the first 40 minutes, Arsenal seemed reasonably secure if not inspired.
Originflurry
(1600-1700) Probably from flurr“to scatter”((17-19 centuries)) + hurry