start tongues (a-)wagging

To be a source of gossip, slander, or idle speculation. Just when the dust of his previous scandal had begun to settle, the governor did something new to start tongues a-wagging across the country. Being such a media celebrity means that anything one does, no matter how banal, is enough to start tongues wagging.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Phoebe	FEE-bee (English)	English, Greek Mythology (Latinized), Biblical, Biblical Latin
Aeneas	i-NEE-əs (English)	Roman Mythology
JerÔNimo	-	Portuguese (Brazilian)
Josseline	-	French
Andrea (2)	AN-dree-ə (English), an-DRAY-ə (English), ahn-DRE-ah (German)	English, German, Spanish, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, Dutch, Cr
Haskel	-	Yiddish