hysteria

But I won't rely here on emotion, outrage or hysteria — just cold, hard facts.

"There's almost a bit of hysteria around facts like there are more women doctors than men now or that women are earning slightly more than men in certain age groups."

Days before the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, he accused the Biden administration of peak "hysteria" in suggesting Russian troops were preparing to go to war.

“You don’t want to create hysteria,” he said.

So the marginal fall in UK inflation can be seen as something of a firebreak, for now, popping something of the frothy hysteria seen over the past few weeks.