"ruffle some feathers" meaning in English

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          "text": "Any frank discussion of politics is sure to ruffle some feathers.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1976 August 28, David P. Brill, “Talking Politics”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 9, page 11:",
          "text": "Plainclothes vice squad detectives played the [gay] bars and waited to be propositioned, or asked out, or something, and bang! According to those old enough to remember […] the police found themselves arresting legislators, employees of the mayor's office, and even some off-duty cops. So many prominent feathers were ruffled that it was decided that Beantown's police had better tend to more important, but less personally risky, endeavors.",
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          "ref": "2023 September 30, Hannah Murphy, “The wildest job in Silicon Valley”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 17:",
          "text": "Asking multiple territorial sales teams to share ideas and resources ruffled feathers.",
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        "To cause a disturbance; to arouse resentment, anger, or concern."
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        "(informal, figuratively) To cause a disturbance; to arouse resentment, anger, or concern."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "ruffle someone's feathers"
        },
        {
          "word": "make waves"
        },
        {
          "word": "poke the bear"
        }
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        {
          "word": "ruffle a few feathers"
        },
        {
          "word": "ruffle feathers"
        },
        {
          "word": "ruffle any feathers"
        }
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  "word": "ruffle some feathers"
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          "ref": "1976 August 28, David P. Brill, “Talking Politics”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 9, page 11:",
          "text": "Plainclothes vice squad detectives played the [gay] bars and waited to be propositioned, or asked out, or something, and bang! According to those old enough to remember […] the police found themselves arresting legislators, employees of the mayor's office, and even some off-duty cops. So many prominent feathers were ruffled that it was decided that Beantown's police had better tend to more important, but less personally risky, endeavors.",
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      "word": "ruffle a few feathers"
    },
    {
      "word": "ruffle feathers"
    },
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      "word": "ruffle any feathers"
    }
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