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chew up the scenery

chew up the scenery is the alternative form of chew the scenery.

Meaning of chew the scenery

Verb

chew the scenery (third-person singular simple present chews the scenery, present participle chewing the scenery, simple past and past participle chewed the scenery)

  1. (idiomatic, performing arts) To display excessive emotion or to act in an exaggerated manner while performing; to be melodramatic; to be flamboyant.
    • Near-synonym: camp it up

Forms of chew up the scenery

third-person singular presentchews up the scenery
present participlechewing up the scenery
past participlechewed up the scenery
pastchewed up the scenery

Questions about chew up the scenery

What is chew up the scenery the alternative form of?
Chew up the scenery is the alternative form of chew the scenery.

Words near chew up the scenery in the dictionary

  1. chew the scenery
  2. chew toy
  3. chew toys
  4. chew up
  5. chew up and spit out
  6. chew up the scenery
  7. chew-and-spit
  8. Chewa
  9. chewability
  10. chewable
  11. chewables

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