chew the scenery

Englisch - Englisch

Definition von chew the scenery im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch

To display excessive emotion or to act in an exaggerated manner while performing; to be melodramatic; to be flamboyant

Starring as a Great White Hope police commissioner sent to clean up Washington, D.C., Nelson displays a set of pipes barely hinted at in his years on Coach, spending the long pilot hour barking, bloviating, singing(!) and generally chewing the scenery.

Silbentrennung

chew the scen·e·ry

Türkische aussprache

çu dhi sinıri

Synonyme

ham it up, melodramatize, overact

Aussprache

/ˈʧo͞o ᴛʜē ˈsēnərē/ /ˈʧuː ðiː ˈsiːnɜriː/

Etymologie

() Its earliest reference is listed in the Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang as being used by Mary Hallock Foote in Coeur D'Alene in 1894.