请输入您要查询的英文词组:

 

词组 song and dance
释义 song and dance
noun
  1. an elaborate performance or presentation of a story, especially in an effort to persuade US, 1895
    • The way the john parks his vehicle in front of you, and methodically takes off his gloves, and reaches into his pouch for his notebook and practically stretches and yawns and enjoys the scenery before condescends to come over for the full song and dance. — Clancy Sigal, Going Away, p. 402, 1961
    • Don’t I get a sales talk too, you know, your li’l song ’n dance? — Odie Hawkins, Chicago Hustle, p. 132, 1977
    • I start giving him a song-and-dance, filling him in on the history of how the Church disposed of the cemetery full of good Catholics[.] — Robert Campbell, The Cat’s Meow, p. 197, 1988
  2. a fuss, an outcry US, 1895
    Something trivial or of little account is “nothing to make a song and dance about”.
    • I can’t make a song and dance about the loot I’ve got[.] — Kevin Sampson, Outlaws, p. 109, 2001
  3. a strip search US
    • — John R. Armore and Joseph D. Wolfe, Dictionary of Desperation, p. 50, 1976
  4. a chance UK
    Rhyming slang.
    • Any song and dance of a sub till the weekend? — Ray Puxley, Cockney Rabbit, 1992
随便看

 

英语词组固定搭配大全包含4241条英汉双解词组,基本涵盖了全部常用英文词组、短语的翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2025/3/13 9:47:25