make a song and dance about sth
UK informalDefinition
› to make something seem more important than it really is so that everyone notices it: I only asked her to move her car but she made such a song and dance about it.Exaggerating and playing downPraising and applauding
(Definition of make a song and dance about sth from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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make a play for sth/sb idiom
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make a point of doing sth idiom
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make a production (out) of sth idiom
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make a rod for your own back idiom
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make a run for it idiom
- make a song and dance about sth idiom
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make a spectacle of yourself idiom
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make a splash idiom
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make a virtue (out) of sth idiom
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make a world of difference idiom
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make a/your mark (on sth) idiom
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Synonyms and related words:
- alarmist adjective
- alarmist noun
- be stretching it idiom
- dramatize verb (MAKE EXCITING)
- exaggerate verb
- grandiloquent adjective
- inflate verb (MAKE LARGER)
- lay it on a bit thick idiom
- make little of sth idiom
- minimize verb
- OTT adjective
- over-egg the pudding idiom
- overrate verb
- overstatement noun
- pad sth out phrasal verb
- protest too much idiom
- soft-pedal verb
- talk sth up phrasal verb
- underrate verb
- undersell verb (BE MODEST)
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