false alarm
noun [C]Translation
› an occasion when people believe that something dangerous is happening, but it is not
sahte alarm, yanlış uyarı
Fire engines rushed to the scene, but it was a false alarm.1902(Definition of false alarm noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish
© Cambridge University Press)
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