song and dance | Idiomator

Meaning: A display ofunnecessaryexcitementoractivity.; Anexcessivelyelaboratestory orexcuseused tojustifysomething.2011December 2, Ariel Kaminer, “The Ethicist: Caveat Vendor”, inNew York Times, retrieved6 April 2015:You could pick up the phone, call your vendors and give them a bigsong and danceabout all the great things happening in your company.; An excessivelycomplexset ofinstructions.; Used other than figuratively or idiomatically:seesong,‎and,‎dance.

Examples:

EN: Save your song and dance until he's settled in.
ES: Dispénsale tu canción y tu danza hasta que se haya acomodado.
EN: Hurry around or you'll miss my first song and dance.
ES: No te pierdas el estreno.
EN: Well, this Kushman is doing a stretch up at Auburn. And according to my brother Ed, he's been giving one of the members of the parole board, a lawyer by the name of Francis Clark Baird, some song and dance about the alibi in the Breitstein case being framed up.
ES: Este Kushman está cumpliendo condena en Auburn, y según mi hermano Ed, ha ido diciendo a uno de los miembros de la junta de la condicional, un abogado llamado Francis Clark Baird, que lo de la coartada del caso Breitstein fue un montaje.
EN: Oh, that's an old song and dance of yours.
ES: Esa es una vieja canción.
EN: Never mind the song and dance.
ES: Nada de discursos, te lo ruego.
ES: No importa las canciones y el baile.
EN: No song and dance.
ES: Sin tambores ni trompetas.
EN: Ye gods of song and dance must I suffer?
ES: Dioses del canto y de la danza, ¿debo sufrir así?
EN: Just one song and dance. Please.
ES: Solo una canción y un baile.
EN: - Looks like a song and dance team.
ES: - Parecen una pareja de baile.
EN: I found it was nothing more than an exhibition of a new song and dance called the jitterbug jive.
ES: Pero luego supe que sólo era una demostración de un baile llamado Jitterbug jive.
EN: Now, I know enough about American song and dance to accept as perfectly normal the performing of the jitterbug jive.
ES: Ahora sé suficiente sobre ese baile para aceptar como normal el Jitterbug jive.
EN: ♪ With song and dance ♪
ES: Con canciones y danzas
EN: You meet a lug in a boxcar and he gives you a song and dance about a roadhouse.
ES: El tipo aquel del vagón te contó una sarta de mentiras.
EN: You're a good performer. Those fellas could use a song and dance, and you...
ES: A esos chicos les haría bien un poco de música y baile.
EN: Started out playing his banjo... doing a song and dance on an Oakland ferry... - for whatever the passengers tossed in his cap.
ES: Empezó tocando el banjo y bailando en un transbordador... a cambio de monedas en el sombrero.

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