shaggy dog story

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A long-winded tale or yarn featuring extensive narration of typically irrelevant details, usually resulting in a pointless or absurd punchline, which is often a pun or Spoonerism on a known catchphrase
a long joke that usually ends in a silly or disappointing way
a long rambling joke whose humor derives from its pointlessness
prolonged telling of an insignificant occurrence that is amusing only to the teller; stale joke, old joke
A long, rambling, pointless story or joke, especially one with an absurd punchline
shaggy dog story

    الواصلة

    shag·gy dog sto·ry

    التركية النطق

    şägi dôg stôri

    المترادفات

    exaggeration, tall story, tall tale

    النطق

    /ˈsʜagē ˈdôg ˈstôrē/ /ˈʃæɡiː ˈdɔːɡ ˈstɔːriː/

    علم أصول الكلمات

    () Uncertain; prob. from one of two jokes, one in which a protracted search for an alleged remarkably shaggy, talking dog ends in the discovery of the dog which, though it can indeed talk, is disappointingly not so shaggy after all; or one in which an even more protracted search for the shaggiest dog in the world ends in the utterly anticlimactic punchline "Now that's a shaggy dog!".
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