razzle-dazzle

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  1. noun Informal Dazzling excitement.
  2. noun Informal Elaborate action or maneuvers designed to deceive an opponent, as in a sports contest.
  3. noun Informal Extravagant or showy display, as of technique: a lecture that was more razzle-dazzle than substance.

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  • Shaw Brothers studios - razzle-dazzle musicals, death-steeped melodramas, huangmei diao Chinese opera adaptations, super-noir swordplay sagas, gristle-ribboned urban thrillers, and some of the greatest martial-arts movies ever made - is risen. —  GreenCine Daily
  • Some of that razzle-dazzle at the end would go a long way toward taking the aud's breath away in the early going; simply having one of these big numbers swap places with one of those gentle groovers could do the trick. —  Keepingitreal
  • In terms of lifestyle, the city replicates a middle-class life back home but the razzle-dazzle is noticeable.
  • The nadir of this pastiche had to be when leggy showgirls arrived on stage while Groban gave a bit of Broadway razzle-dazzle to "M*A*S*H's" "Suicide Is Painless."
  • Dancing With the Stars fan, pretending to be captivated by the razzle-dazzle of forgettable B-list celebs waltzing and jiving and tango-ing and cha-cha-ing. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Reduplication of dazzle.

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  1. A varied reduplication of dazzle.
  2. razzle-dazzle, v.
 

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/ræzlˈdæzl/
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