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Idiom(s) of the day: much ado about nothing
My category (Russian-to-English translation): Важность и приоритеты (Importance and priorities). Положительная или отрицательная оценка (Positive or negative evaluation)
Explanation(s):
Collins Cobuild Dictionary of Idioms, 2004 (CCDI):
If you say that people are making much ado about nothing, you mean that they are making a lot of fuss about something which is not as important or significant as they think it is. “Much Ado About Nothing” is the title of a play by Shakespeare. This expression is often varied.
Lingvo (www.lingvo.com):
a phrase which people sometimes use to describe a situation in which there has been a lot of excitement about something that is not really important. It comes from the title of a humorous play by William Shakespeare.
Babylon (www.babylon.com):
fuss, especially about something that is unimportant
Random House Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary v4.7:
Translation(s):
CCDI:
Много шуму из ничего; нечего было и огород городить; нечего было волну поднимать.
Lingvo (www.lingvo.com):
много шума из ничего [выражение, популярное во времена Шекспира и взятое им в качестве названия одной из своих комедий]
Babylon (www.babylon.com):
много шума из ничего
Multitran (www.multitran.ru):
что за шум, а драки нет?
из пустяков, да много шуму
сыр-бор разгорелся
Multilex (www.multilex.ru):
Examples:
CCDI:
French newspapers described the international row as “Much Ado About Nothing”.
After one year, I dropped out of the course because it was much ado about nothing really. It was all about style, not content.
Lately there’s been much ado about the ducks belonging to my poultry-farming neighbour.
Lingvo (www.lingvo.com):
When you've been here a few years and you go back to an ordinary life, you feel a bit out of it, you know... It all seems an awful rush. Much ado about nothing, that's what it is. (W. S. Maugham, ‘Creatures of Circumstance’, ‘Sanatorium’) — Вот поживете в санатории несколько лет, а потом захотите вернуться к обычной жизни - увидите, как трудно снова войти в колею... Везде какая-то безумная спешка. Много шуму из ничего - вот что это такое.
Babylon (www.babylon.com):
this is much ado about almost nothing
Oxford English Dictionary (OED) v4.0:
Random House Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary v4.7:
British National Corpus (BNC), Mark Davies (http://corpus.byu.edu/bnc/): much ado about, 25 total
…to start work on a movie version of the bard's famous play, Much Ado About Nothing
All successful thrillers need hype. Bloomsbury makes much ado about its author, David Mason.
Although I did the lights for Hamlet at school, I never understood the play, thinking at the time that it was much ado about very little.
Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), Mark Davies (http:// www.americancorpus.org/): much ado about, 173 total
Case himself suggested he was close to developing a "radioactive" magic bullet that would cure cancer, and there was much ado about his moving to California to be near radiological research at the Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley.
The growing public debate on pharmaceuticals in water will heat up this summer as experts on both sides of the issue try to convince the public that it's either much ado about nothing or another example of humans ignoring early warning signs such as deformed frogs.
There's so much ado about stress, keeping track of it all can be stressful.
My companion project: An Idiom a Day (www.twitter.com/AVDemid): With so much ado about Twitter, keeping track of it all, though fun, can be a drain on resources. Is it worth it or much ado about nothing?
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