chew the scenery

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İngilizce - İngilizce
To display excessive emotion or to act in an exaggerated manner while performing; to be melodramatic; to be flamboyant

Starring as a Great White Hope police commissioner sent to clean up Washington, D.C., Nelson displays a set of pipes barely hinted at in his years on Coach, spending the long pilot hour barking, bloviating, singing(!) and generally chewing the scenery.

chew the scenery

    Heceleme

    chew the scen·e·ry

    Türkçe nasıl söylenir

    çu dhi sinıri

    Eş anlamlılar

    ham it up, melodramatize, overact

    Telaffuz

    /ˈʧo͞o ᴛʜē ˈsēnərē/ /ˈʧuː ðiː ˈsiːnɜriː/

    Etimoloji

    () Its earliest reference is listed in the Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang as being used by Mary Hallock Foote in Coeur D'Alene in 1894.