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Definition:trouble; fusscontemporary uses mostly restricted to "without further ado...", otherwise dated.
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I had much ado to defend myself against these detestable animals, and could not forbear starting when they came on my face.
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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M. Mery. Ah sirrha now Custance if ye had so muche wit
I woulde see you aske pardon, and your selues submit.
C. Custance. Haue I still this adoe with a couple of fooles?
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Besides, the poor old chap, if it hadn't been for the colza last year, would have had much ado to pay up his arrears.
Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary (1856)
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then you will turn cool; and then you will be capricious; and then you will be stern, and I shall have much ado to please you: but when you get well used to me, you will perhaps like me again,—like me, I say, not love me.
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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He was a troublesome patient; and we had much ado to keep him within bounds. For a long time he would eat nothing but thistles; but of this idea we soon cured him by insisting upon his eating nothing else.
Edgar Allan Poe. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4: The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether (1845)
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Without further ado Tom ran across the green and around the back of the kitchen.
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and without further ado he turned and ran into the woods.
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“It’s a trap!” he said, and without further ado he turned around and ran.
Ken Follett. The Pillars of the Earth (1990)
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