It's a fuss about nothing.
It's a fuss about nothing: a scrap among kids, and Evans's client has been charged with a very minor common assault.
Arnold Zwicky said it better than I can: "this is not even a tempest in a teapot, it's a fuss in a thimbleful of spit".*It's good to be consistent, and that's why the AP and The Economist (and probably the Washington Post) have something called a style.
First, there was Tony Hayward, the BP chief executive, telling the world that it was a lot of fuss about not very much, a drop, in fact, in the ocean.
P5:15 Their [clinicians'] approach was really genuine, and they didn't make me feel as if I was making a fuss, they didn't make me feel, which I have had from other people from time to time that it was a bit of a fuss for somebody for my age to be worrying about things like that.
During post-event media duties, the Norwegian had played with her mobile phone, giggled, shrugged her shoulders and essentially asked "What is the fuss about?" It was a stance better recognised among spoilt schoolchildren.
Instead, it was an excess of fuss and not that close a result.
Maybe it's a terrible fuss for a supposed grown-up to make about a mere sport, but it was striking to witness a millionaire whose wealth is no consolation when his life has been invested in this game.
I know it can be a fuss but trust me, it's such a good habit to cultivate - I still use the dictionary all the time today, and it has become a pleasure (I mean some words are just weird!) and not just a chore, to do it.
Many of the responses were angry and scatological, and one commenter said the family had erred by talking to foreign reporters: "Originally it was a small matter, but now it has been intentionally made into a big fuss.
