song and dance

Questions about song and dance

What does song and dance mean?

song and dance means "theatrical performance combining singing and dancing". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for song and dance?

Close synonyms include fairytale, fairy tale, fairy story, cock-and-bull story. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is song and dance a common word?

song and dance is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.