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Song and dance   /sɔŋ ənd dæns/   Listen
Song and dance

noun
1.
Theatrical performance combining singing and dancing.
2.
An interesting but highly implausible story; often told as an excuse.  Synonyms: cock-and-bull story, fairy story, fairy tale, fairytale.






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"Song and dance" Quotes from Famous Books



... Street were closed, and the only entertainment offered at the taverns was contained in glass and pewter. The attitude of the landlord of the "Pilots' Hope," where Mr. Dix had sought to enliven the proceedings by a song and dance, still rankled in ...
— Short Cruises • W.W. Jacobs

... his associates could ever hope to gain. Apart from his colonial career, he had been to Greece in a brigantine with four brass carronades; he had travelled Europe in a chaise and four, drawing bridle at the palace-doors of German princes; queens of song and dance had followed him like sheep, and paid his tailor's bills. And to behold him now, seeking small loans with plaintive condescension, sponging for breakfast on an art-student of nineteen, a fallen Don Juan who had neglected to die ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XXI • Robert Louis Stevenson



Words linked to "Song and dance" :   fairytale, fairy story, cock-and-bull story, fib, tale, tarradiddle, fairy tale, story, public presentation, performance, taradiddle



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