| 单词 | much ado about nothing |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmuch ado about nothing much ado about nothing and variants: a great deal of fuss or trouble over nothing of any significance.Later use is often influenced by the title of Shakespeare's play; cf. quot. 1600. ΚΠ 1574 J. Whitgift Def. Aunswere to Admon. 637 How dare you..make so much adoe about nothing. 1600 W. Shakespeare (title) Much adoe about nothing. 1669 Songs Alamode in New Acad. Complements 234 Your Lad that makes love to a delicate smooth thing..Frequently makes much ado about nothing. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones II. v. iii. 127 (heading) Which all, who have no Heart, will think to contain much ado about nothing . View more context for this quotation 1781 F. Hopkinson Misc. Ess. (1792) I. 163 (title) The march to the Valley Forge; or much ado about nothing. 1847 Fine Arts Jrnl. 30 Jan. 196/2 Pity to take so much trouble—so much ado about nothing! 1920 San Francisco Chron. 30 May e3/1 There is an impression of a good deal of ado about nothing. 1945 C. Headlam Diary 24 Jan. in S. Ball Parl. & Politics in Age Churchill & Attlee (1999) xiii. 443 There was a debate today about compulsory service for A.T.S. overseas—I did not listen to much of it because it seemed to me much ado about nothing. 1991 N.Y. Times 10 Dec. a19/4 Much of the hand-wringing over the control of nuclear weapons really is much ado about nothing. 2000 Sci. News 11 Nov. 314/1 The frenetic scurrying of ants..may seem like much ado about nothing. There's method in their madness, however. < as lemmas |
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