To make a song and dance (about something)

Learning English Conversations

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Language Learning, Education

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2019

⏱️ 3 minutes

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If things don't go your way, how can singing and dancing help?

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0:00.0	This is a download from BBC Learning English.
0:03.0	To find out more, visit our website.
0:06.0	The English we speak.
0:09.0	From BBC learning English.
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0:12.0	Hello, this is the English we speak and I'm Faye Faye.
0:16.8	And hello I'm Rob.
0:18.0	Hey Rob watch this.
0:20.3	Mm. Mm-mm-mm. Yeah. Yeah, very impressive, Fay Faye Fay, but why are you singing and dancing?
0:29.0	Well, I booked a holiday in a lovely hotel with a fantastic swimming pool.
0:35.0	Right and you're celebrating by singing and dancing.
0:38.0	Hmm, very strange.
0:39.0	No, Rob, of course not.
0:41.0	There's a problem.
0:42.0	The swimming pool is closed for refurbishment and I want to cancel my holiday, but the hotel won't let me.
0:49.0	Oh, right. So you're just singing about it?
0:52.0	No, Neil told me to call the hotel again and make a song and dance about my reservation. So I'm practicing before I do.
1:00.0	Ha ha ha ha, hold on Faye, don't waste your time. What Neil means by to make a song and dance about it
1:07.4	is to make lots of unnecessary fuss about it, basically to overreact. Ah, got it. examples.
1:30.0	Oh, my boyfriend makes such a song and dance about doing the housework. But to be honest, it's not that hard.
1:35.0	Don't make a song and dance about it.
1:39.0	I only ask you to move seats so I can see the screen.
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