chew the sceneryとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Its earliest reference is listed in the Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang as being used by Mary Hallock Foote in Coeur D'Alene in 1894.[1]

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動詞

chew the scenery (三人称単数 現在形 chews the scenery, 現在分詞 chewing the scenery, 過去形および過去分詞形 chewed the scenery)

1. (idiomatic, performing arts) To display excessive emotion or to act in an exaggerated manner while performing; to be melodramatic; to be flamboyant.
   • 1989 November 27, David Denby, “A Farewell to Arms [review of Steel Magnolias]”, in New York Magazine‎^[2]:

     The way the six stars chew the scenery is nothing compared to their abuse of one another.

   • 2006 October 11, James Poniewozik, “Fall TV Preview”, in Time:

     Starring as a Great White Hope police commissioner sent to clean up Washington, D.C., Nelson displays a set of pipes barely hinted at in his years on "Coach," spending the long pilot hour barking, bloviating, singing(!) and generally chewing the scenery.

同意語

• ham it up, melodramatize, overact, tear a cat

派生語

参照

• Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang