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{{def|Murmuration|/məːməːˈreɪʃ(ə)n/|collective n|[[File:Murmuration.png|450px|thumb|center|Starts off well but then they start writing.]]}} | {{def|Murmuration|/məːməːˈreɪʃ(ə)n/|collective n|[[File:Murmuration.png|450px|thumb|center|Starts off well but then they start writing.]]}} | ||
1. A group of [[legal eagle]]s (or more particularly, ''[[legal | 1. A group of [[legal eagle]]s (or more particularly, ''[[legal sparrow]]s'')<ref>I mean legal starlings. But I sort of don’t.</ref> 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. Though it conjures a vision of unimaginative [[hive mind]] of drone-like workers, blindly following each other about without a plan let alone any grander sense of purpose or strategy— albeit as they do, 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 {{t|metaphor}} was their idea in the first place.<be> | ||
2. A large bunch of in-flight co-ordinating [[starling|starlings]]. | |||
Though it conjures | |||
{{sa}} | {{sa}} | ||
*[[Starling]] | *[[Starling]] | ||
*[[Collective noun]] | *[[Collective noun]] | ||
*[[Simmons & Simmons]] | *[[Simmons & Simmons]] | ||
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Murmuration /məːməːˈreɪʃ(ə)n/ (collective n.)
1. A group of legal eagles (or more particularly, legal sparrows)[1] 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. Though it conjures a vision of unimaginative hive mind of drone-like workers, blindly following each other about without a plan let alone any grander sense of purpose or strategy— albeit as they do, 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.<be>
2. A large bunch of in-flight co-ordinating starlings.
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- ↑ I mean legal starlings. But I sort of don’t.