"story" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The plot is a kind of metaphysical shaggy-dog story, involving six highly cultivated people trying to sit down to a civilized meal together.
- It was, as far as they were concerned, a big shaggy-dog story with a duff punchline.
- Ernie, apparently out of shaggy-dog stories, had returned to stand a few paces away.
- His shaggy-dog stories have a way of escaping their boundaries and engaging the real world in unexpected ways.
- "The Short and the Curlies" has something of the manner of a shaggy-dog story.
- It sounds like the beginnings of a shaggy-dog story: how many enemies does a paranoid fugitive really have?
- It also plays like a Dylan song: a shaggy-dog story about power, love, show business, prodigal sons, faith and destiny.
- To them the war is one interminable shaggy-dog story.
- It's now obvious that calling his comedies shaggy-dog stories isn't good enough.
- "Leningrad Cowboys" isn't much more than a shaggy-dog story, though a packed one.
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