shaggy-dog story / ˈʃæg iˈdɔg, -ˈdɒg /

长毛狗的故事长毛狗故事毛茸茸的狗的故事毛毛虫的故事

shaggy-dog story 的定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. a funny story, traditionally about a talking dog, that, after an often long and involved narration of unimportant incidents, has an absurd or irrelevant punch line.

shaggy-dog story 近义词

shaggy-dog story

等同于 joke

更多shaggy-dog story例句

  1. The story of fluoridation reads like a postmodern fable, and the moral is clear: a scientific discovery might seem like a boon.
  2. But along with the cartoon funk is an all-too-real story of police brutality embodied by a horde of evil Pigs.
  3. Whatever the FBI says, the truthers will create alternative hypotheses that try to challenge the ‘official story.’
  4. In its attempt to discredit the story, the JPO inadvertently confirmed that fact.
  5. And extortion makes a lot more sense before a story hits the news wire, not after.
  6. A little boy of four was moved to passionate grief at the sight of a dead dog taken from a pond.
  7. A was an Archer, who shot at a frog; B was a Butcher, and had a great dog.
  8. Nothing but an extreme love of truth could have hindered me from concealing this part of my story.
  9. A few moments afterward he was seen dragging his own trunk ashore, while Mr. Hitchcock finished his story on the boiler deck.
  10. The dog stood with hanging head and tail, as if ashamed he had let so many of his enemies get away unharmed.