shaggy-dog story
Example Sentences
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Despite the multifariousness, “All-Night Pharmacy” is not a shaggy dog story.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 6, 2023
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
What results is a sequence of face-offs, each of which feels as if it might make its own play without adding up to much by the end of the questing, shaggy dog story on view.
From New York Times • Sep. 8, 2017
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
He was beginning to feel like a character in a shaggy dog story.
From Off Course by Freas, Kelly
