all singing, all dancing
adjEtymology 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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Having many features, options or extras; sometimes used ironically to imply that the added features are just gimmicks.
- 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.2020 July 29, Christian Wolmar, “Why this crisis calls for a railway crusade like no other”, in Rail, page 44:
- 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.2024, Jeremy B. Rudd, A Practical Guide to Macroeconomics, page 228:
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- bells and whistles