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Song and dance

noun

Theatrical performance combining singing and dancing.

An interesting but highly implausible story; often told as an excuse. Synonyms: cock-and-bull story, fairy story, fairy tale, fairytale.

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... the key changed again, striking that fundamental middle F that is the mother-note of all the voices of nature and, as Indians maintain, of the music of the spheres as well. Music and song and dance became laughter. Doubt vanished, for there seemed nothing left to doubt, as she began to sing of India rising at last, again triumphant over darkness, mother of the world and of all the nations ...

— Caves of Terror • Talbot Mundy

... the festival was kept up with song and dance and music. All the friends and relations of the old couple were present, and great was their enjoyment of the festivities held to celebrate the naming of Princess Moonlight. Everyone who saw her declared that there never had been seen any one so lovely; all ...

— Japanese Fairy Tales • Yei Theodora Ozaki

... observed to himself; "trouble is—he'd give us that same song and dance if he'd croaked the guy ...

— Raspberry Jam • Carolyn Wells

... and the moon began to rise. Song and dance gradually ceased, and the happy villagers began to disperse, and wend their ways homeward. Love was in the air—love breathed in the perfume of the flowers—love tuned the throats of the passionate nightingales that warbled out their mating songs in every hazel copse and from ever ...

— God's Good Man • Marie Corelli

... and dancing six dances, as it pleased the Queen, they went to eat, and being with great and well-ordered service attended, and with delicate and good dishes, becoming gayer they arose and renewed music and song and dance, until the Queen on account of the increasing heat judged that whoever liked should go to sleep. Of whom some went, but others, conquered by the beauty of the place, would not go, but remained, some to read romances, some to play at chess and at tables, while the others ...

— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol. 5 • Various

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