Crossword clues for song and dance
song and dance
Wiktionary
n. 1 (label en idiomatic) A display of unnecessary excitement or activity. 2 (label en idiomatic) An excessively elaborate story or excuse used to justify something. 3 (label en idiomatic) An excessively complex set of instructions.
WordNet
n. theatrical performance combining singing and dancing
an interesting but highly implausible story; often told as an excuse [syn: fairytale, fairy tale, fairy story, cock-and-bull story]
Wikipedia
Song and Dance is a musical comprising two acts, one told entirely in " Song" and one entirely in " Dance", tied together by a unifying love story.
The "Song" act is Tell Me on a Sunday, with lyrics by Don Black and music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, about a young British woman's romantic misadventures in New York City and Hollywood. The "Dance" act is a ballet choreographed to Variations, composed by Lloyd Webber for his cellist brother Julian, which is based on the A Minor Caprice No. 24 by Paganini.
Usage examples of "song and dance".
He gave me some song and dance about being my legal guardian in the absence of my father.
Most people don't know the difference, so I don't bother going through the whole song and dance.
She started going with a guy named Robbins, a singer in the Trent House cabaret, and he got her to try a song and dance with him one evening.
The too-clever-by-half confidence man laughed and said Longarm had been right the first time, going into a song and dance about the not only late, but also nonexistent Chad Spooner having introduced them during a payday crap game.
You'll get the old song and dance about how they're too busy now and will work it out later.