shaggy dog story dans le dictionnaire Oxford-Hachette

Traductions de shaggy dog story dans le dictionnaire anglais»français

8. story Am (floor):

Voir aussi : two, storey

storey GB, story Am [GB ˈstɔːri, Am ˈstɔri] SUBST <pl storeys GB stories Am>

III.dog <pprés dogging; prét, ppas dogged> [GB dɒɡ, Am dɔɡ] VERBE trans

dog → teach

give a dog a bad name (and hang him) prov
to put on the dog fam Am
frimer fam
to go and see a man about a dog (relieve oneself) euph, hum

Voir aussi : teach

I.teach <prét, ppas taught> [GB tiːtʃ, Am titʃ] Teach For America VERBE trans

II.teach <prét, ppas taught> [GB tiːtʃ, Am titʃ] Teach For America VERBE intr

III.teach <prét, ppas taught> [GB tiːtʃ, Am titʃ] Teach For America

shaggy dog story dans le dictionnaire PONS

Traductions de shaggy dog story dans le dictionnaire anglais»français

anglais britannique

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The joke format is extremely similar to a shaggy dog story.
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Both had an aspect of the shaggy dog story about them.
www.independent.co.uk
Here's a shaggy dog story without a shaggy dog.
news.nationalpost.com
Pastis will often employ a shaggy dog story, using a great amount of dialogue to spin an elaborate yarn often resolved with a character's unforeseen death or near death.
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The term is a pun on the concept of a shaggy dog story.
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This kind of anticlimax is similar to that of the shaggy dog story.
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A shaggy dog story with a very distinctive flavour.
www.spectator.co.uk
Our writer unravels this shaggy dog story...
www.express.co.uk
And the fact that the "political thriller" ends up being the world's shaggiest shaggy dog story is just part of the problem.
io9.gizmodo.com
A shaggy dog story is an extremely long and involved joke with an intentionally weak or completely non-existent punchline.
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