to-do
bustle; fuss: They made a great to-do over the dinner.
Origin of to-do
1synonym study For to-do
Words Nearby to-do
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2024
How to use to-do in a sentence
First on the to-do list, the profiling exercises to help the Western masses understand the nature of the wretched beast.
You never see a boxer come out of a well-to-do family because they have nothing to fight for.
Bryan Cranston on Walter White’s Future, Directing ‘Better Call Saul,’ and Hillary 2016 | Marlow Stern | August 1, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMost of us are busy enough without adding yet another item to our to-do lists each day.
She reportedly told police that she had 200 well-to-do customers.
She works as a maid, scrubbing floors and toilets of the well-to-do families in West Hartford, Connecticut.
Breaking Mount Everest’s Glass Ceiling | Amanda Padoan, Peter Zuckerman | March 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
With time this land had mounted to great values and the holders had been made well-to-do thereby.
The Homesteader | Oscar MicheauxHis parents were of the well-to-do farming class, occupied from one year's end to the other with the work of the fields.
Bastien Lepage | Fr. Crastre“But it certainly was a great to-do,” murmured Jessie, as she tried to see what the boys were doing.
The Campfire Girls of Roselawn | Margaret PenroseWidder Morse wants to ape these well-to-do folks that live tother end o Whiffle Street.
The Girls of Central High on the Stage | Gertrude W. MorrisonA relative of the Virlaz family, well-to-do Jewish furriers of Leipsic.
Repertory Of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A -- Z | Anatole Cerfberr and Jules Franois Christophe
British Dictionary definitions for to-do
/ (təˈduː) /
a commotion, fuss, or quarrel
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Browse