all singing, all dancing

English

Etymology

From the advertising posters used to promote the 1929 film The Broadway Melody – Hollywood’s first all-talking musical (as opposed to partially talking, partially silent) – which proclaimed the film to be “All Talking All Singing All Dancing” – see film poster.[1] In full, the poster reads:

METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER’S
ALL TALKING ALL SINGING ALL DANCING
PICTURE
THE BROADWAY MELODY

Adjective

all singing, all dancing (not comparable)

  1. Having many features, options or extras; sometimes used ironically to imply that the added features are just gimmicks.

See also

References
  1. “All singing, all dancing” in Gary Martin, The Phrase Finder, 1997–, retrieved 26 February 2017.
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