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song and dance idiommainly USinformal a long and complicated statement or story, sometimes one that is not true: 长篇唠叨;(尤指)大套谎话 She gave me some song and dance about how busy she is.她对我唠叨了半天她有多忙。 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Exaggerating & playing down bloviate blow something out of proportionidiom cartoonish cartoonishly catastrophize fulsome go overboardidiom grandiloquent inflated make a mountain out of a molehillidiom make little of somethingidiom make much of somethingidiom make something of something/someone meal mildly minimization overrated protest too muchidiom underplay underrate
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