| 单词 | shaggy dog yarn |
| 释义 | > as lemmasshaggy dog yarn shaggy dog story n. a lengthy tediously detailed story of an inconsequential series of events, more amusing to the teller than to his audience, or amusing only by its pointlessness; also shaggy dog yarn, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > unintelligible language, gibberish > [noun] > instance of > rambling tale tale of a tub1532 cock-and-bull story1670 blind story1699 peramble1824 shaggy dog story1937 1937 Esquire May 56/1 One of the more sporting ways of finding out which ones are not [sane] is to try shaggy-dog stories on them. 1952 A. R. K. Barnard in A. Redman Somewhat ‘Shaggy’ 4 The comparatively recent type of story—the ‘Shaggy Dog’ yarn. 1952 A. Koestler Arrow in Blue i. viii. 68 The people of Budapest have a peculiar shaggy-dog kind of humour. 1958 Listener 16 Oct. 623/1 It was a shaggy-dog story about a small-town worthy who shams madness to avoid paying bills. 1972 ‘P. Ruell’ Red Christmas xi. 102 He seemed to be in the middle of an autobiographical shaggy-dog story. < as lemmas |
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