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"in a dither" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to being flustered or agitated. For example, "John was in a dither when he realized he had forgotten his passport at home."
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in a dither
adjective
In a state of indecision. Flustered
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The Labour opposition, which is divided on the idea, is kept in a dither.
The studio was in a dither of political correctness mixed with business concerns.
Yet on this afternoon in April 1995, he was in a dither.
But the morning of June 5 found her in a dither anyway.
I am all in a dither, fretting about catching a crab and losing the race for my team.
The previous morning, Kate had been all in a dither, fretting about catching a crab and losing the race for her team.
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He's now being moved to another position by the Hamlet of Springfield (Gov. Pat Quinn) in a dithering act with a soap opera backdrop.
Following control engineering practices, we assume the existence of a biological excitation (dither) within the heart rate control loop that softens the nonlinearity and studied LF-HRV behavior in a dither-embedded model.
For this sake, we model the retinal noise that occurs in these layers by a dither signal.
The Times this morning suggest their man Gove is in a similar dither, "torn between Cameron and Brexit".
He "was a charming mess — extravagantly verbal, always in a flamboyant dither," Wexler wrote in "Rhythm and the Blues: A Life in American Music" (with David Ritz).
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