I don’t want to stir any more feathers

During a conference call, the speaker said this because she was apparently causing some issues. It’s a congruent conflation of “stir the pot” and “ruffle some feathers”, both meaning to further irritate or annoy someone or something. A big thank you to Naomi David for another malaphor mishap and to Katie Norwood for sending it in.

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