shaggy dog story in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

Translations for shaggy dog story in the English»French Dictionary

shaggy [Brit ˈʃaɡi, Am ˈʃæɡi] ADJ

story [Brit ˈstɔːri, Am ˈstɔri] N

8. story Am (floor):

See also two, storey

II.two [Brit tuː, Am tu] DET

III.two [Brit tuː, Am tu] PRON

storey Brit, story Am [Brit ˈstɔːri, Am ˈstɔri] N <pl storeys Brit stories Am>

I.dog [Brit dɒɡ, Am dɔɡ] N

III.dog <pres part dogging; pret, pp dogged> [Brit dɒɡ, Am dɔɡ] VB trans

dog → teach

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

See also teach

I.teach <pret, pp taught> [Brit tiːtʃ, Am titʃ] Teach For America VB trans

II.teach <pret, pp taught> [Brit tiːtʃ, Am titʃ] Teach For America VB intr

III.teach <pret, pp taught> [Brit tiːtʃ, Am titʃ] Teach For America

shaggy dog story in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for shaggy dog story in the English»French Dictionary

Translations for shaggy dog story in the English»French Dictionary

shaggy <-ier, -iest> [ˈʃægi] ADJ

American English

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

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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.
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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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