Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

all singing, all dancing

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: 4.24 in modern English

Syllables: al-l sing-ing, al-l -danc-ing
IPA

26

Scrabble Score

20

Letters

6

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

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

Example Sentences

"This is why we need a major relaunch of the railways. Not some half-hearted campaign such as "Britain runs on rail", but an all out, all-singing, all-dancing campaign to get people to use the railways again: to rediscover the benefits of train travel and learn to trust them once again."
"In fact, an all-singing, all-dancing DSGE model implies that relative to zero, a 2 percent inflation target costs the economy roughly $385 billion every year."

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

Inflected Forms

all-singing, all-dancing (alternative) all-singing-and-dancing (alternative)

Phrases

bells and whistles

Frequently Paired Words

bells and whistles

Questions

What does all singing, all dancing mean?: Having many features, options or extras; sometimes used ironically to imply that the added features are just gimmicks.
Where does all singing, all dancing come from?: 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

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