Sentence examples for too much ado from inspiring English sources

The phrase "too much ado" is a commonly-used idiom in written English
This phrase is used to refer to an excessive fuss or commotion over something that is unimportant or not worth the attention it has received. For example, "I can't believe there's been so much ado about this minor issue—it's really not that big of a deal."

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It's too much ado about too little.

Barone, without too much ado, agreed to wear a wire against Piliero.

I think people make too much ado about terms and wording -- it's self-absorbed.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton managed to get in without too much ado, and she lit the place on fire with her strong team building skills and has the State Dept.

The recent dust-up between Sarah Palin and the animal welfare organization PETA,  over her Facebook photos of her 6-year old son standing atop the family dog as if it were a step stool, strikes me as a little too much ado on both sides.

Any Mexican wave-like synchronisations of hundreds or even thousands of honeybees would then be seemingly too much ado for this defence purpose.

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Clark Gregg is in "Much Ado," too.

People did say to us before Much Ado opened: "You are too young to do it".

There are occasions when the title of Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing" seems all too apposite.

John Hurt told DVD Review magazine that the Oscars are much ado about not much: "Miles too much is made of the Oscars.

I remember thinking the scenes included from Much Ado and Coriolanus were much too long; that maybe we didn't need the whole of Portia's "quality of mercy" speech because it was so familiar.

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