English Explanatory Dictionary

all singing, all dancing

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Having many features, options or extras; sometimes used ironically to imply that the added features are just gimmicks.

Word forms

all singing, all dancing all-singing, all-dancing all-singing-and-dancing

Etymology

From the advertising posters used to promote the 1929 film The Broadway Melody – Hollywood’s first all-talking musical (as opposed to partially talking, partially silent) – which proclaimed the film to be “All Talking All Singing All Dancing” – see film poster. In full, the poster reads: METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER’S ALL TALKING ALL SINGING ALL DANCING PICTURE THE BROADWAY MELODY

Related words

bells and whistles
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