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for a song and dance

for a song and dance is the alternative form of for a song.

Meaning of for a song

Prepositional phrase

  1. (idiomatic) For a very low price; very cheaply.
    • They remembered then that they could have bought for a song canvases which now were worth large sums.1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter 48, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC

Questions about for a song and dance

What is for a song and dance the alternative form of?
For a song and dance is the alternative form of for a song.

Words near for a song and dance in the dictionary

  1. for a fact
  2. for a laugh
  3. for a minute
  4. for a song
  5. for a song and a dance
  6. for a song and dance
  7. for a start
  8. for a time
  9. for a while
  10. for Africa
  11. for all

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Adapted from Wiktionary: for a song and dance (page history and authors); for a song (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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