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Definition of Song and dance
1. Noun. Theatrical performance combining singing and dancing.
2. Noun. An interesting but highly implausible story; often told as an excuse.
Generic synonyms: Fib, Story, Tale, Taradiddle, Tarradiddle
Definition of Song and dance
1. Noun. (idiomatic) An excessively elaborate story or excuse used to justify something ¹
2. Noun. (idiomatic) An excessively complex set of instructions ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Song And Dance
Literary usage of Song and dance
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"Of all things else comes sweet satiety; Of love, and slumber, and melodious song,
And dance delicious ; things of more delight And more to be desired than ..."
2. Echoes from the Rocky Mountains: Reminiscences and Thrilling Incidents of by John Wesley Clampitt (1888)
"INDIAN DANCES-LEGENDERY LORE OF THEIR song and dance-BABY SONGS OF INDIAN
MOTHERS —THE YOUNG WARRIOR'S ORDEAL ..."
3. Hawthorn and Lavender, with Other Verses by William Ernest HENLEY (1901)
"#TO other boards for pun and song and dance I Our purpose is an essay in romance:
An old-world story where such old-world facts As hate and love and death, ..."
4. The Beginnings of Poetry by Francis Barton Gummere (1901)
"A festal song and dance after the fight, easily turned into ritual and ...
A study of the refrain showed how close this bond between song and dance must ..."
5. Stability and Variation in Hopi Song by George List (1993)
"Then there is a period of rest before a second song and dance. ... In the plaza
the same song and dance are performed two to four times on different sides ..."
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