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klaxon
noun
A loud electric horn or alarm.
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You should always bear in mind the Streisand effect, which can have the reverse effect – spreading what you don't want to draw notice to around the internet, with the equivalent of a klaxon attached to it.
Then, if all that fails, maybe try jumping out from behind the bush with a klaxon.
The tassel's current fashionability is a warning klaxon too.
This album's 11th-hour manifestation – even its uppercase title, BEYONCÉ, looked like someone jumping out from behind a bush with a klaxon – meant that it was too late for inclusion on most end-of-year lists, but as well as leapfrogging music critics, its release depended on precisely zero airplay, hinged on not one TV appearance, and was not even teased online.
At 8am a klaxon sounds and, along with cheers, whoops and much back-slapping, we start our long trek to the stones.
In the polite, formulaic world of company reporting, this is a warning klaxon.
For a fee you can buy a police siren or a snorting klaxon to shoo mortals out of your way.In this section Defensive Belgium's rotten food Who cares?
All three should have set off a deafening klaxon in his cab, which would have triggered automatic braking unless the warnings were manually overridden within three seconds.
If panic serves his purposes he will rattle the bars and sound the klaxon, as he has done on the issue of "crime in the streets".
Perfectly nice in the proper context, they are also klaxon signifiers of bad taste when rendered on t-shirts and human skin.
The figurative klaxon will have gone off at the Football Association yesterday with terrifying abruptness, alerting Wembley that their forgotten man – who once briefly held every one of the FA's major coaching jobs – had given them one hell of a problem.
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