fuss and feathers

“I don’t like fuss and feathers.”

Tomorrow I shall put away my ‘fuss and feathers’ and be desperately good again,” she answered with an affected little laugh.

At her first ball, eldest sister Meg borrows a low-cut, sugar-pink dress from a rich friend — a disguise of finery that works until she encounters Laurie, her childhood friend and neighbor, who tells her he hates the dress for its “fuss and feathers.”

The general was known as “Old Fuss and Feathers” because of his dedication to discipline and pomp.

The beauty of this sweeping movie lies not only in the acting, though we could save fuss and feathers and give Cumberbatch the Oscar right now.