| 单词 | shaggy dog story |
| 释义 | shaggy dog story in British Englishnoun informal a long rambling joke ending in a deliberate anticlimax, such as a pointless punch line shaggy-dog story in American English (ˈʃæɡiˈdɔɡ, -ˈdɑɡ) noun a funny story, traditionally about a talking dog, that, after an often long and involvednarration of unimportant incidents, has an absurd or irrelevant punchline Word origin [1945–50]This word is first recorded in the period 1945–50. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: beeper, fail-safe, individual medley, shootout, synchronized swimming |
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