alarm bell

The diehard supporter of the president-elect has shared grand designs for the bureau, and that's set off alarm bells among pundits, elected officials and intelligence reporters.

But they are a reminder of how Trump set off alarm bells across diplomatic channels and international markets during his first term often via social media posts.

Artists and storytellers are often our early warning system and they’ve been sounding the alarm bells for years.

Those reports increasingly raised alarm bells not just among Democratic detractors of Gaetz and the president-elect, but among Senate Republicans — who met his withdrawal with what appeared to be an intentionally understated shrug.

"If the mother doesn’t feel like they want to be with their baby, there should be alarm bells ringing."