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View synonyms for Much Ado About Nothing

Much Ado About Nothing

noun

  1. a comedy (1598?) by Shakespeare.


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Idioms and Phrases

A big fuss over a trifle, as in Jerry had everyone running around looking for his gloves—much ado about nothing . Although this expression is best remembered as the title of Shakespeare's comedy, the phrase much ado was already being used for a big commotion or trouble in the early 1500s.
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Example Sentences

A penciled note in a volume from a cheap set called World Famous Classics tells me that I first read “Much Ado About Nothing” in 1974.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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