fuss and feathers

noun

Fuss; excessive activity or bother.

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Meanings

nounfuss and feathers (uncountable)
  1. uncountableFuss; excessive activity or bother.

    While passing troops on the march, there was none of that fuss and feathers about Grant that demands the admiration of those who love spectacular effect, and therefore there was scarcely any of that 'hurrah, boys' that we read about in the Napoleonic era; […]

    1885, Benjamin Perley Poore, Otis Henry Tiffany, Life of U.S. Grant (page 121)
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