FALSE ALARM


Meaning of FALSE ALARM in English

ˌfalse aˈlarm BrE AmE noun [countable]

a situation in which people wrongly think that something bad is going to happen:

Fire fighters responded to a false alarm at one of the college dormitories.

The patient was okay – it was a false alarm.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.      Longman - Словарь современного английского языка.