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all singing, all dancing

all singing, all dancing adjective: having many features, options or extras; sometimes used ironically to imply that the added features are just gimmicks.

Adjective

all singing, all dancing (not comparable)

  1. Having many features, options or extras; sometimes used ironically to imply that the added features are just gimmicks.
    • This is why we need a major relaunch of the railways. Not some half-hearted campaign such as "Britain runs on rail", but an all out, all-singing, all-dancing campaign to get people to use the railways again: to rediscover the benefits of train travel and learn to trust them once again.2020 July 29, Christian Wolmar, “Why this crisis calls for a railway crusade like no other”, in Rail, page 44
    • In fact, an all-singing, all-dancing DSGE model implies that relative to zero, a 2 percent inflation target costs the economy roughly $385 billion every year.2024, Jeremy B. Rudd, A Practical Guide to Macroeconomics, page 228

Forms of all singing, all dancing

alternative formall-singing, all-dancing
alternative formall-singing-and-dancing

Origin of all singing, all dancing

From the advertising posters used to promote the 1929 film The Broadway Melody – Hollywood’s first all-talking musical (as opposed to partially talking, partially silent) – which proclaimed the film to be “All Talking All Singing All Dancing” – see film poster. In full, the poster reads: METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER’S ALL TALKING ALL SINGING ALL DANCING PICTURE THE BROADWAY MELODY

Questions about all singing, all dancing

What does all singing, all dancing mean?
All singing, all dancing means having many features, options or extras; sometimes used ironically to imply that the added features are just gimmicks.
What part of speech is all singing, all dancing?
All singing, all dancing is an adjective.

Words near all singing, all dancing in the dictionary

  1. all serene
  2. all set
  3. all show and no go
  4. all show, no go
  5. all sing, no dance
  6. all singing, all dancing
  7. all Sir Garnet
  8. all sixes and nines
  9. all sixes and sevens
  10. all sizzle and no steak
  11. all skin and bones

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