shaggy dog story in English

prolonged telling of an insignificant occurrence that is amusing only to the teller; stale joke, old joke

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1. It becomes a long shaggy-dog story with a lame punch line. Who cares?

2. Crashing has a nice, shaggy-dog-story rhythm to its plots This is the kind of show that's not going to make the big pop-culture impact of the series that precedes it -- Girls -- but it's a

3. “The 'Burbs” tries to position itself somewhere between “Beetlejuice” and “The Twilight Zone,” but it lacks the dementia of the first and the wicked intelligence of the second and turns instead into a long shaggy dog story

4. The 'Burbs tries to position itself somewhere between Beetlejuice and The Twilight Zone, but it lacks the dementia of the first and the wicked intelligence of the second and turns instead into a long shaggy dog story