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without further ado

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without further ado

Cliché without further talk. (An overworked phrase usually heard in public announcements.) And without further ado, I would like to introduce Mr. Bill Franklin! The time has come to leave, so without further ado, good evening and good-bye.

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without further ado

(slightly formal) also without more ado

without any more talk or activity Without further ado, here is my list of the ten best restaurants in St. Louis.

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without further/more ado

without any delay And so, without further ado, let me introduce you to tonight's speaker.

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without further ado

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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