单词 | a song and dance (about something) |
释义 | a song and dance (about something) From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englisha song and dance (about something)a song and dance (about something)informal a) British EnglishCOMPLAIN if you make a song and dance about something, you behave as if it was worse, more important, more difficult etc than it really ismaking a song and dance about her aching feet. Suzy was there, b) American EnglishREASON an explanation or excuse that is too long and complicatedgave us a long song and dance about why she was late. She → swansong → songExamples from the Corpusmaking a song and dance• But to the children of Gloucestershire, it's just making a song and dance about having fun. |
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