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shaggy dog story
shaggy dog story n informal a long rambling joke ending in a deliberate anticlimax, such as a pointless punch line Thesaurus| Noun | 1. | shaggy dog story - a long rambling joke whose humor derives from its pointlessnessgag, jape, jest, joke, laugh - a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter; "he told a very funny joke"; "he knows a million gags"; "thanks for the laugh"; "he laughed unpleasantly at his own jest"; "even a schoolboy's jape is supposed to have some ascertainable point" |
Translationsstoriella con finale paradossaleshaggy dog story
shaggy dog storyA long-winded anecdote that has a silly or anticlimactic ending. The old man was known for telling shaggy dog stories that made people groan and scratch their heads when he reached the ending.See also: dog, shaggy, storyshaggy-dog Storya kind of funny story that relies for its humor on its length and its sudden ridiculous ending. Don't let John tell a shaggy-dog story. It'll go on for hours. Mary didn't get the point of Fred's shaggy-dog story.See also: storyshaggy-dog storyA 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] See also: storya shaggy-dog story a long, rambling story or joke, especially one that is amusing only because it is absurdly inconsequential or pointless. The expression, dating back to the 1940s, comes from the subject of one such anecdote, a dog with shaggy hair. 1993 New York Times Book Review The book has the unhurried pace of the best of the shaggy dog stories; the pleasure is all in the journey rather than the destination. See also: storya ˌshaggy-ˈdog story (informal) a long, complicated story or joke, which has no proper ending and is not very funny: He told us this joke, which turned out to be a shaggy-dog story, and I hate those!This expression comes from the subject of one particular story of this kind, a dog with long, untidy (shaggy) hair.See also: storyshaggy dog story
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