Brewer's: Fuss

Much ado about nothing. (Anglo-Saxon, fus, eager.)

So full of figure, so full of fuss, She seemed to be nothing but bustle.

Hood: Miss Kilmansegg, part iii. stanza 12.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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