without further ado

Idioms  

1. Also, without more ado. Without more work, ceremony, or fuss. For example, Without further ado they adjourned the meeting and went home, or And now, without more ado, here is our speaker of the day. This idiom has one of the few surviving uses of the noun ado, meaning “what is being done.” (Another is much ado about nothing.) [Late 1300s]

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without further ado

All right, without further ado, here’s Yvonne and Oscar.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2025

Numbers tell all — and so without further ado, here they are:

From Washington Times ● May 23, 2023

“Ladies and gentlemen, without further ado, put your hands together for the one, the only Beyoncé,” he declared.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 2, 2023

So queue up some of your favorite Christmas tunes and settle in, because without further ado, here is the Starbucks 2022 holiday beverage ranking:

From Salon ● Dec. 8, 2022

Because I could see her shoulders move in a kind of sigh, then without further ado, she reached over to open the door for me.

From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro