گزارش خطا در معنی کلمه 'shaggy dog story'

1 general:: Phrase(s): a shaggy-dog story a kind of funny story that relies for its humor on its length and its sudden ridiculous ending. • Don’t let John tell a shaggy-dog story. It’ll go on for hours. • Mary didn’t get the point of Fred’s shaggy-dog story.

2 general:: A long drawn-out anecdote with an absurd or anticlimactic ending. For example, At first he had us laughing wildly at his shaggy-dog stories, but after the third or fourth we found them tiresome. The term alludes to a well-known series of such stories, which involved a talking dog. [c. 1940]