| 单词 | shaggy-dog story |
| 释义 | shaggy-dog story[ shag-ee-dawg, -dog ] / ˈʃæg iˈdɔg, -ˈdɒg / SEE SYNONYMS FOR shaggy-dog story ON THESAURUS.COM nouna funny story, traditionally about a talking dog, that, after an often long and involved narration of unimportant incidents, has an absurd or irrelevant punch line. Origin of shaggy-dog storyFirst recorded in 1945–50 Words nearby shaggy-dog storyshagbark, shaggable, shagged, shaggy, shaggy cap, shaggy-dog story, shaggy-mane, shagreen, shagreen skin, shagroon, shagtastic Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 British Dictionary definitions for shaggy-dog storyshaggy dog story nouninformal a long rambling joke ending in a deliberate anticlimax, such as a pointless punch line 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 Idioms and Phrases with shaggy-dog storyshaggy-dog story A long drawn-out anecdote with an absurd or anticlimactic ending. For example, At first he had us laughing wildly at his shaggy-dog stories, but after the third or fourth we found them tiresome. The term alludes to a well-known series of such stories, which involved a talking dog. [c. 1940] The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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