shaggy-dog story
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Its title notwithstanding, “Kim’s Video,” co-directed by David Redmon and Ashley Sabin and narrated by Redmon, is less a retail history than a shaggy dog story.
From New York Times • Apr. 4, 2024
Despite the multifariousness, “All-Night Pharmacy” is not a shaggy dog story.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 6, 2023
In an interview last year, Prince Harry and his fiancee, American actress Meghan Markle, told their own shaggy dog story.
From Washington Post • Apr. 18, 2018
The tale of its discovery is something of a shaggy dog story, beginning with the father of the periodic table, the 19th Century Russian polymath Dmitri Mendeleev.
From BBC • May 29, 2015
He was beginning to feel like a character in a shaggy dog story.
From Off Course by Freas, Kelly
