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to-do

[tuh-doo]
–noun, plural -dos. Informal.
bustle; fuss: They made a great to-do over the dinner.

Origin:
bef. 900; ME, OE; n. use of infinitive phrase; see to, do 1 , ado


See ado.
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to-do

  1. n.
    a commotion. : They made quite a to-do about the broken window.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

to-do 
1570s, from the verb phrase to do, from O.E. to don "proper or necessary to be done" (see to). Meaning "disturbance, fuss" is first recorded 1827.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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