Murmuration /məːməːˈreɪʃ(ə)n/ (collective n.)
1. A group of legal eagles (or more particularly, legal starlings) from that ever-aspiring silver circle law firm, Simmons & Simmons. They run around copying each other in a fashion that you would think would be counterproductive and prone to not really get you anywhere, but which looks impressive from a distance and in fairness does manage to avoid actively hitting things.
.2 A large bunch of in-flight co-ordinating starlings.
Though it conjures the image of a rather unimaginative hive mind of drone-like workers, blindly following each other about, without a plan, let alone any sense of a grander purpose or wider strategy— albeit doing so in a fashion yielding strangely beautiful, alien, but ultimately meaningless shapes — those in such a murmuration — each one we may call a “starling” — should not complain, seeing as the metaphor was their idea in the first place.
