fuss and feathers AmE

Never could figure out what all the fuss and feathers was about.

Crossing the Atlantic's a breeze compared to all that fuss and feathers.

I think she would get a glance of approval, though, from people who like sense and simplicity rather than fuss and feathers.

All the fuss and feathers and foofaraw were over.

Well, to be taking you under my wing, as you might say, until you've worked all that pompous fuss and feathers out of your head.

I don't like fuss and feathers.

No Virginian need be ashamed to follow old Fuss and Feathers.

Scott, "Old Fuss and Feathers," wore all the uniform the law allowed.

Hating fuss and feathers, he has been induced to make triumphal progresses on four continents.

No fuss and feathers.

Tomorrow I shall put away my 'fuss and feathers' and be desperately good again," se answered with an affected little laugh. "

For one thing, whatever the hype, I can't see myself stalking about like an ostrich, all fuss and feathers above balanced on stilt-like extremities.

Fuss and Feathers is a 1918 American silent comedy film directed by Fred Niblo.

He joined the army in 1809, and acquired the nickname "Fuss and Feathers" for his attention to dress and protocol.

They call me 'Old Fuss and Feathers.'

Scott's preoccupation with protocol and proper dress had earned him a national nickname-Old Fuss and Feathers.

To the Editor: Cynicism impels me to regard the volunteerism summit as just fuss and feathers (front page, April 28).

Scott earned the nickname "Old Fuss and Feathers" for his insistence on military bearing, courtesy, appearance and discipline.

Kayne had questioned him briefly, and everything had fallen into place, and all without a lot of running about and fuss and feathers.

The old imitation pomps, the fuss and feathers, have departed, and the royal trademark--that is about all that one could miss, I suppose.

Stripping away the encrustations of time and the fuss and feathers of "Continental cuisine," they built afresh upon local traditions and ingredients.

Old Fuss and Feathers: The Life and Exploits of Lieutenant General Winfield Scott.

Bobby Dodd, Georgia Tech football coach whose name adorns a football stadium and a street in this city, liked all the fuss and feathers about bowl games.

A soldier nicknamed Old Fuss and Feathers is not likely to be a political success, nor readily to be remembered as a peer of Washington and Grant.

She has made a regular guy of herself; I won't tell her so, and the dear little soul shall have a jolly time in spite of her fuss and feathers.