chew the scenery

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Определение chew the scenery в Английский Язык Английский Язык словарь

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.

Расстановка переносов

chew the scen·e·ry

Турецкое произношение

çu dhi sinıri

Синонимы

ham it up, melodramatize, overact

Произношение

/ˈʧo͞o ᴛʜē ˈsēnərē/ /ˈʧuː ðiː ˈsiːnɜriː/

Этимология

() 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.