I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
with a minimum of fuss (= with very little anxious behaviour or activity )
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They checked our passports with the minimum of fuss.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
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I don't see what the big fuss is all about.
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Catherine, so quit making this damn big fuss , woman, fah Cyrise sake!
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She was probably making a big fuss about very little, said a small voice inside her.
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My birthday was really tough because Peter always made a big fuss of it.
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We don't make a big public fuss but he answers our questions, and we answer his.
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They all thought she was gorgeous and they were all making a big fuss .
great
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There's a great fuss going on, isn't there?
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Certainly the letters he had written home had made no great fuss about the child's death.
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Birthdays Old people either dislike having a great fuss made of their birthdays or they love every minute of it.
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She thought yet again: I make a great fuss of nothing, and have not suffered at all.
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We do make a great deal of fuss when children fail to match our expectations particularly when standards of behaviour are concerned.
minimum
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And if you've got more than one speaker it must be adjustable with minimum fuss .
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For home waxing, Immac Warm Wax, £7.99, whisks away hair with minimum fuss .
■ VERB
cause
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This is the story that caused all the fuss .
kick
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It might be partly because I didn't kick up a fuss when I lost the captaincy.
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Yet when pedestrianisation was first announced the city's shopkeepers, taxi drivers and disabled groups kicked up a fuss .
make
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Don't make a fuss but don't be a martyr.
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I do not make a fuss , I do not rant and splutter.
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Yes, in fact Emilou cried, and Wendi had made a fuss about the mascara on my sixty-buck shirt.
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He'd make an awful fuss .
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When you arrive, you or your advocate should make a fuss .
see
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I don't see what the big fuss is all about.
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Then the old female golden eagle came out into the gloom to see what the fuss was.
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Travellers would go miles out of their way to see what all the fuss was about.
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No, I just wanted to see what all the fuss was about.
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Then first one, then another and finally eight cabbies all wandered over to see what the fuss was.
wonder
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A decade from now we might, as you suggest, be wondering what all the fuss was about.
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Some visitors to the World Wide Web wonder what all the fuss is about.
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In the event, the Ventura users are probably wondering what all the fuss is about.
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Not bad, you think, but you wonder what all the fuss was about.
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We both pissed ourselves laughing afterwards, wondering what all the fuss was about.
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Spending time with them, I too began to wonder what the fuss was about.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
kick up a fuss/stink/row
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It's financial clout that counts or, failing that, kicking up a stink.
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It's for your protection, so that you have the union behind you if Mellowes kicks up a stink.
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It might be partly because I didn't kick up a fuss when I lost the captaincy.
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It will still contain plenty of business and mortgage borrowers to kick up a stink about base rates.
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Yet when pedestrianisation was first announced the city's shopkeepers, taxi drivers and disabled groups kicked up a fuss.
no muss, no fuss
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It would be nice if income tax could be figured out in half an hour - no muss , no fuss.
not be fussed (about sth)
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Passengers strained to see what all the fuss was about.
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The current fuss about San Jose's proposed downtown arena has been noticed in other parts of the state.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I liked the novelty and fuss and being the centre of attention.
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Indeed, Carville himself reacted to the fuss by sounding as though he were having second thoughts.
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Seb's father was a large, comfortable-looking man who did not seem disposed to make a fuss .
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She couldn't see why there was all this fuss , or even why her father had to get married at all.
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Then, later, there was all that fuss in the papers about Mark and Anne.
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Yes, in fact Emilou cried, and Wendi had made a fuss about the mascara on my sixty-buck shirt.
II. verb
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
no muss, no fuss
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It would be nice if income tax could be figured out in half an hour - no muss , no fuss.
not be fussed (about sth)
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Mary Alice fussed and squirmed until she got her bottle.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At the end of it is a Paris suburb, a bed with cool white linen and nuns fussing around me.
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Everybody fussed over his brilliance to a great degree; he was a focal point at our school.
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He famously fussed over his seating below the salt on Air Force One.
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I don't want to have Nicky Scott Wilson fussing round me like a wretched nanny while you're away.
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Many pairs and triplets show the relative strength of the noun: Jill fusses.
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Paquita fusses with the white cloth, twitching it back and forth, minutely rearranging its folds.
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They were people who really let themselves go on high days and holidays, not likely to fuss about anything left over.
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Thomasina at this time was fussing around the table.