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a Shakespearean play - lots of fuss about what turns out to be unnecessary effort

2006-11-06 22:14:30 · answer #1 · answered by Ruthie Baby 6 · 1 0

Much Ado About Nothing Meaning

2016-10-07 04:59:06 · answer #2 · answered by hone 4 · 0 0

Much Ado About Nothing Definition

2016-12-30 11:21:04 · answer #3 · answered by scharfschwerdt 3 · 0 0

"Much ado about nothing" is a phrase used when someone makes a big deal about something unimportant. Like the saying "Making a mountain out of a mole hill". It is also the title of a Shakespearian play. There is a version of it that stars Kenneth Branaugh that is very good.

2006-11-06 22:24:41 · answer #4 · answered by Shadowtwinchaos 4 · 1 0

It is a phrase from nineteenth century Britain, derived from those who were regarded as the height of snappy dressing in the Regency period. (In its turn, that word came from buck in the sense of the animal, and had a slightly older meaning still that suggested male gaiety or spirit, with unsubtle suggestions of rutting deer.) In another sense buck up first meant to dress smartly, for a man to get out of those comfortable old clothes and into something drop-dead gorgeous. Since to do so was often a pick up to the spirit, the phrase shifted sometime around the 1880s to its modern meaning. It seems to have been public school slang to start with, probably from Winchester College, and rather stiff-upper-lip British. It could suggest that the person being addressed should stop acting like a wuss, ninny or coward, as here from Edith Nesbit’s The Wouldbegoods of 1901: “Be a man! Buck up!”, and was something of a cliché at one time in stories of Englishmen abroad bravely facing adversity. From the early years of the twentieth century, it could also be an injunction on somebody to get a move on or hurry up; here’s an example, from D H Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers of 1913: “ ‘Half-past eight!’ he said. ‘We’d better buck up’ ”.

2016-03-14 10:42:00 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

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2015-08-16 19:10:09 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

Making a simple matter somewhat complex because of unnecessary 'fuss'.

Some of those matters invite an old adage that the NOTHING "ain't worth a penneth of 'pi--' in a seaweed paddock!"

2006-11-06 22:25:24 · answer #7 · answered by mulroy1563 3 · 1 0

It's unimportant.

2006-11-06 22:29:10 · answer #8 · answered by GypsyGr-ranny 4 · 1 0

it's like saying making a mountain out of a mole hill.

getting stressed out about something that turns out to be harmless.

winning a dollar from a scratch off lottery ticket and telling every one about it as if you'd won a hundred.

2006-11-06 22:20:35 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

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Buck up is a nice way of saying "Suck it up and stop being a whiny betch".

2016-03-27 01:49:16 · answer #10 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

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