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scenery-chewing

adj

Definitions

  1. That chews the scenery

    That chews the scenery; excessively flamboyant or overacting

    • When Mitzi's Uncle Boris (a scenery-chewing Judd Hirsch) visits, he is too on the nose when he advises, "Art will tear your heart out."

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for scenery-chewing. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA