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Fuss

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Much ado about nothing. (Anglo-Saxon, fus, eager.)

“So full of figure, so full of fuss,

She seemed to be nothing but bustle.”


Hood: Miss Kilmansegg, part iii. stanza 12.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Funny Bone
Furbelow
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Furies of the Guillotine (The)
Furor
Fusberta
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