shaggy-dog story
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Its title notwithstanding, “Kim’s Video,” co-directed by David Redmon and Ashley Sabin and narrated by Redmon, is less a retail history than a shaggy dog story.
From New York Times • Apr. 4, 2024
In an interview last year, Prince Harry and his fiancee, American actress Meghan Markle, told their own shaggy dog story.
From Washington Post • Apr. 18, 2018
Typical jokes included a riff on a bee travelling alongside her on the motorway, and a shaggy dog story about the year she kept bumping into 1980s pop star Taylor Dayne.
From The Guardian • Jun. 11, 2016
Shot on 35MM and featuring a score that similarly evokes a bygone era of filmmaking, “Inherent Vice” is a shaggy dog story of the most scruffy kind.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 5, 2014
He was beginning to feel like a character in a shaggy dog story.
From Off Course by Freas, Kelly
