'song and dance' definitions:
Definition of 'song and dance'
(from WordNet)
noun
Theatrical performance combining singing and dancing
noun
An interesting but highly implausible story; often told as an excuse [syn: fairytale, fairy tale, fairy story, cock- and-bull story, song and dance]
Synonyms of 'song and dance'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- act,
- afterpiece,
- ballad opera,
- ballet,
- ballet divertissement,
- bamboozlement,
- befooling,
- bit,
- bluffing,
- Broadway musical,
- calculated deception,
- chaser,
- chorus show,
- circumvention,
- comedy ballet,
- comic opera,
- conning,
- curtain,
- curtain call,
- curtain raiser,
- dance drama,
- deceiving,
- deception,
- deceptiveness,
- defrauding,
- delusion,
- delusiveness,
- divertimento,
- divertissement,
- dupery,
- enmeshment,
- ensnarement,
- entanglement,
- entrapment,
- epilogue,
- exode,
- exodus,
- expository scene,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- falseness,
- finale,
- flimflam,
- flimflammery,
- fond illusion,
- fooling,
- grand opera,
- hallucination,
- hoke act,
- hoodwinking,
- illusion,
- interlude,
- intermezzo,
- intermission,
- introduction,
- kidding,
- light opera,
- lyric drama,
- minstrel,
- minstrel show,
- mirage,
- music drama,
- musical,
- musical comedy,
- musical stage,
- musical theater,
- number,
- opera,
- opera ballet,
- opera bouffe,
- opera buffa,
- operetta,
- outwitting,
- overreaching,
- phantasm,
- pitch,
- prologue,
- putting on,
- routine,
- scene,
- self-deception,
- shtick,
- Singspiel,
- sketch,
- skit,
- snow job,
- song-and-dance act,
- song-play,
- spoofery,
- spoofing,
- stand-up comedy act,
- striptease,
- subterfuge,
- swindling,
- trickiness,
- tricking,
- turn,
- victimization,
- vision,
- willful misconception,
- wishful thinking